Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 205
“Of course it’s frightfully fascinating, but you see I am only a little girl.
Who acts: course, you, Wendy · What happens: be, see · To what, where: little girl · 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 (course, you, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 fascinating | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 7 fascinating | advmod |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fascinating | nsubj |
| 5 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fascinating | cop |
| 6 | frightfully | frightfully | ADV | _ | 7 fascinating | advmod |
| 7 | fascinating | fascinating | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 see | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fascinating | conj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 girl | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 girl | cop |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 girl | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 girl | amod |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fascinating | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | course | fascinating, frightfully property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Wendy | a little girl | tree rules |
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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