Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 95
“Quick,” he ordered them, “bring me each of you the best of what we have.
Who acts: Peter, we · What happens: order, bring, have · To what, where: Tootles · 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, we), 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 | _ | 2 Quick | punct |
| 2 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Quick | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Quick | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ordered | nsubj |
| 6 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Quick | parataxis |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ordered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ordered | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 bring | obj |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 best | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 each | nmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 best | det |
| 16 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 bring | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 what | case |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 best | obl |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Peter | Tootles = tootle | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | infinitive | Peter not said here | Tootles = tootle | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | we | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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