Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 91
“Ay, she will die,” Slightly admitted, “but there is no way out.”
Who acts: Curly · What happens: die, admit, be · To what, where: way · 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), 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 | _ | 6 die | punct |
| 2 | Ay | ay | INTJ | _ | 6 die | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ay | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 die | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 die | aux |
| 6 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 admitted | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 die | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 die | punct |
| 9 | Slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 10 admitted | advmod |
| 10 | admitted | admit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 way | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 way | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 is | cc |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 way | cop |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 way | det |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 admitted | ccomp |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 way | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 way | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die in a quote | future | Curly | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | admit speech: other | past | slightly property | vn confess-37.10 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | no way | out property | tree rules |
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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