Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 105
“He doesn’t know!” and always after this she felt that if you could have a pet pirate Smee would be her one.
Who acts: wonder, Wendy, you · What happens: not know, feel, have, be · To what, where: pet pirate, one
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wonder, Wendy, you), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 felt | cc |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 felt | advmod |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 this | case |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 felt | obl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 felt | nsubj |
| 13 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 have | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 have | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | aux |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 felt | ccomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 pirate | det |
| 20 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pirate | compound |
| 21 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 22 | Smee | Smee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 pirate | appos |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 one | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 one | cop |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 one | nmod:poss |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 felt | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | wonder | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | feel | past | Wendy | after this | always property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen | could | you | a pet pirate | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pirate=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | would | Wendy's one | 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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