Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 38
“Have you not seen her?” asked Peter, becoming troubled.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: not see, ask, become · To what, where: sound, Peter · 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), 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 | _ | 5 seen | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 seen | advmod |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seen | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 becoming | punct |
| 12 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | advcl |
| 13 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 becoming | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see in a quote | present · perfect | Peter | sound | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Peter | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent peter=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | become | gerund | troubled property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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