Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 57
“I cannot strike,” he said with awe, “there is something stays my hand.”
Who acts: Peter, something · What happens: not strike, say, be, stay · To what, where: hand · 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, something), 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 strike | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 strike | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 strike | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 strike | advmod |
| 5 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 strike | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 strike | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 awe | case |
| 11 | awe | awe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 is | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 is | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 15 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 stays | advcl |
| 16 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 stays | nsubj |
| 17 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hand | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stays | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 stays | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 stays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not strike in a quote | can | Peter | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | with awe | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | something not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stay in a quote | present | something | my hand | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hand=Location |
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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