Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 33
“I am back,” he said hotly, “why do you not cheer?”
Who acts: Peter, you · What happens: be, say, not cheer · 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 (Peter, you), 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 | _ | 4 back | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 back | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 back | cop |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 back | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 back | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | hotly | hotly | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cheer | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 cheer | punct |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 cheer | advmod |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 cheer | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 cheer | nsubj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 cheer | advmod |
| 16 | cheer | cheer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 cheer | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 cheer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Peter | back property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Peter | hotly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not cheer in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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