Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 90
“But if she lies there,” Tootles said, “she will die.”
Who acts: Curly, Tootles · What happens: lie, say, die · 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 (Curly, Tootles), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 lies | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 lies | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lies | nsubj |
| 5 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lies | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lies | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 lies | punct |
| 9 | Tootles | tootle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 die | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 die | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 die | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 die | aux |
| 15 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 die | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Curly | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Tootles | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | die in a quote | future | Curly | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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