Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 169
Now Peter could never resist a game, and he answered blithely in his own voice, “I have.”
Who acts: Peter · What happens: not resist, answer, have · To what, where: game, own voice · 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 (Peter), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 resist | advmod |
| 2 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 resist | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 resist | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 resist | advmod |
| 5 | resist | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 game | det |
| 7 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 resist | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 answered | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 resist | parataxis |
| 12 | blithely | blithely | ADV | _ | 11 answered | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 voice | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 voice | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 voice | amod |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 answered | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 resist | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 resist | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not resist | could | Peter | a game | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Peter | codfish's own voice | blithely property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | Peter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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