Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 40
“Ah me!” one voice said, and another said, “Oh, mournful day.”
Who acts: one voice · What happens: say · To what, where: another · 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 (one voice), 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 | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 3 me | discourse |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 voice | nummod |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 said | obj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 day | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 day | punct |
| 15 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 17 mournful | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Oh | punct |
| 17 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 day | amod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | one voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | another | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent another=Topic |
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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