Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 75
And Tootles answered, “Redskin; what are you, Nibs?” and Nibs said, “Redskin; what are you Twin?” and so on; and they were all redskins; and of course this would have ended the fight had not the real redskins fascinated by Peter’s methods, agreed to be lost boys for that once, and so at it they all went again, more fiercely than ever.
Who acts: Tootles, you, Nibs, Redskin, fight · What happens: answer, be, say, end, have, fascinate · To what, where: Redskin, Twin, redskins, this, real redskins, boys · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tootles, you, Nibs, Redskin), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 answered | cc |
| 2 | Tootles | tootle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Redskin | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Redskin | punct |
| 6 | Redskin | Redskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 said | obj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | cop |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 what | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 what | punct |
| 12 | Nibs | nib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 Nibs | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Nibs | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Nibs | cc |
| 16 | Nibs | nib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Nibs | conj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Redskin | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Redskin | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Redskin | punct |
| 20 | Redskin | Redskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 what | punct |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 answered | parataxis |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 Twin | cop |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 Twin | nsubj |
| 25 | Twin | Twin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 what | acl:relcl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 25 Twin | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Twin | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 on | cc |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 on | advmod |
| 30 | on | on | ADV | _ | 22 what | conj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 redskins | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 redskins | cc |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 redskins | nsubj |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 redskins | cop |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 redskins | det |
| 36 | redskins | redskin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 answered | obl |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 ended | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 ended | cc |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 this | case |
| 40 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 of | fixed |
| 41 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 ended | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 ended | aux |
| 43 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 ended | aux |
| 44 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 answered | parataxis |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 fight | det |
| 46 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 had | nsubj |
| 47 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 ended | ccomp |
| 48 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 51 redskins | advmod |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 redskins | det |
| 50 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 redskins | amod |
| 51 | redskins | redskin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 had | obj |
| 52 | fascinated | fascinate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 51 redskins | acl |
| 53 | by | by | ADP | _ | 56 methods | case |
| 54 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 methods | nmod:poss |
| 55 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 54 Peter | case |
| 56 | methods | method | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 fascinated | obl |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 agreed | punct |
| 58 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 51 redskins | acl |
| 59 | to | to | PART | _ | 61 lost | mark |
| 60 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 61 lost | aux:pass |
| 61 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 58 agreed | xcomp |
| 62 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 61 lost | obj |
| 63 | for | for | ADP | _ | 64 that | case |
| 64 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 61 lost | obl |
| 65 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 61 lost | advmod |
| 66 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 73 went | punct |
| 67 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 73 went | cc |
| 68 | so | so | ADV | _ | 70 it | advmod |
| 69 | at | at | ADP | _ | 70 it | case |
| 70 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 73 went | nsubj |
| 71 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 73 went | nsubj |
| 72 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 73 went | advmod |
| 73 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 74 | again | again | ADV | _ | 73 went | advmod |
| 75 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 77 fiercely | punct |
| 76 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 77 fiercely | advmod |
| 77 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 73 went | advmod |
| 78 | than | than | ADP | _ | 79 ever | case |
| 79 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 77 fiercely | obl |
| 80 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: ask | past | Tootles | Redskin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | you | Redskin | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Nibs and Nibs | Redskin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | Redskin | Twin | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | Tootles = tootle | all redskins | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | end | would · perfect · passive | this | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | have | past | the fight | the real redskins | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent redskin=Patient | ||||
| 8 | fascinate | participle | the real redskins not said here | by Peter's methods | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 9 | agree speech: agree | participle | the real redskins not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 10 | lose not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | boys | for that; once property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: boy=Eventuality | ||||
| 11 | go | past | fight | again | fiercely property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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