Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 109

“See,” said Hook in answer to Smee’s question, “that is a mother.

Who acts: Hook, that, Smee · What happens: see, say, be, question · To what, where: answer, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Hook, that, Smee), 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 See	punct
2	See	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 answer	case
8	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 question	case
10	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 question	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 Smee	case
12	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answer	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mother	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 mother	punct
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 mother	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 mother	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 mother	det
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 question	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see in a quote	infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	Hook		answer to Smee's question and a mother	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	that	a mother		tree rules
4	question		Smee			nom question «communication transitive»: poss=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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