Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 24
“I must,” he answered, shaking; “I am so afraid of Peter.”
Who acts: silence · What happens: answer, shake, be · 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 (silence), 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 answered | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 must | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 must | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 must | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shaking | punct |
| 9 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 answered | advcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 afraid | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 afraid | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 afraid | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 afraid | cop |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 afraid | advmod |
| 15 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 answered | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Peter | case |
| 17 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 afraid | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 afraid | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | silence | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | shake | gerund | silence not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | silence | of Peter; afraid property | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/7/24/