Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 192
“You ask him some questions,” he said to the others, wiping his damp brow.
Who acts: others, Hook · What happens: ask, say, wipe · To what, where: questions, Hook, others, damp brow · 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 (others, 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 | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | obj |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 questions | det |
| 6 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ask | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 others | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 others | det |
| 13 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wiping | punct |
| 15 | wiping | wipe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 said | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brow | nmod:poss |
| 17 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 brow | amod |
| 18 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wiping | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | the others = other | some questions | Hook | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Hook | the others | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wipe | gerund | Hook not said here | Hook's damp brow | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent brow=Source |
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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