Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 156
“A codfish,” replied the voice, “only a codfish.”
Who acts: codfish · What happens: reply · To what, where: voice
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 (codfish), 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 | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 codfish | det |
| 3 | codfish | codfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 codfish | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 codfish | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 voice | det |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 codfish | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 codfish | punct |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 codfish | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 codfish | det |
| 13 | codfish | codfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 voice | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | a codfish | the voice and a codfish | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent voice=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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