Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 197
Of course Slightly was the first to get his word in.
Who acts: Wendy · What happens: be, get in, word · To what, where: word
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 (Wendy), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Slightly | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | Slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 6 first | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 first | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 first | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 first | acl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 word | nmod:poss |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 get | compound:prt |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | first property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get in | to-infinitive | Wendy's word | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | word | Wendy | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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