Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 126
“Do you agree, my bullies?” asked Hook.
Who acts: you, Hook · What happens: agree, ask · To what, where: bullies · 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 (you, Hook), 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 | _ | 4 agree | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 agree | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 agree | nsubj |
| 4 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bullies | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bullies | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bullies | bully | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 agree | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 agree | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 agree | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree in a quote | present · do-support | you | my bullies | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Hook | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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