Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 86
“Ay,” said Slightly, “that is what one does with ladies.”
Who acts: that, one · What happens: say, be, do · 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 (that, one), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Ay | ay | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ay | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ay | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 what | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | cop |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 does | nsubj |
| 13 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 ladies | case |
| 15 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 does | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | slightly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | one | with ladies | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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