Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 73
He was begging Wendy to get better quickly, so that he could show her the mermaids.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: beg, get, show · To what, where: Wendy, mermaids, lady
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 begging | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 begging | aux |
| 3 | begging | beg | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 begging | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 begging | advcl |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 get | xcomp |
| 8 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 show | punct |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 show | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 show | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 show | aux |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 get | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 show | iobj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mermaids | det |
| 17 | mermaids | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 show | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past · progressive | Peter | Wendy | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent wendy=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | good, quickly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | show | could | Peter | the mermaids | lady | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient mermaid=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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