Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 165
“Don’t desert me, bully,” he whispered hoarsely to it.
Who acts: codfish · What happens: not desert, whisper · To what, where: codfish, ego · 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 (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 | _ | 4 desert | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 desert | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 desert | advmod |
| 4 | desert | desert | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 whispered | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 desert | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bully | punct |
| 7 | bully | bully | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 desert | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 desert | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 desert | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 whispered | nsubj |
| 11 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | hoarsely | hoarsely | ADV | _ | 11 whispered | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 whispered | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not desert in a quote | infinitive · do-support | codfish | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme i=Source | |||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | codfish | ego | hoarsely property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient 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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