Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 181
“It certainly does need a chimney,” said John importantly.
Who acts: chimney, John · What happens: need, say · To what, where: chimney · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chimney, John), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 need | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 need | nsubj |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 need | advmod |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 need | aux |
| 5 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 chimney | det |
| 7 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 need | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 need | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 need | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | importantly | importantly | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need in a quote | present · do-support | chimney | a chimney | certainly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot chimney=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | John | importantly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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