Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 21
But when at last she really came, I shot her.”
Who acts: lady, I · What happens: come, shoot · To what, where: last, lady
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 (lady, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 shot | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 came | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 last | case |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 came | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shot | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 shot | nsubj |
| 10 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shot | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 shot | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | lady | last | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | ||||
| 2 | shoot | past | I | lady | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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