Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 140
“Lads,” he said, shaking a little, “I gave no such order.”
Who acts: Lads · What happens: say, shake, give · To what, where: little, such order · 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 (Lads), 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 Lads | punct |
| 2 | Lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lads | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lads | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shaking | punct |
| 8 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 little | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shaking | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 order | det |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 order | amod |
| 17 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Lads | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | shake | gerund | Lads not said here | a little | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent little=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | past | Lads = lad | no such order | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=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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