Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 270
“Do you think you could swim or fly as far as the island, Wendy, without my help?”
Who acts: you, my · What happens: think, swim, fly, help · 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 (you, my), 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 think | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 swim | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 swim | aux |
| 7 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | ccomp |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 fly | cc |
| 9 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | conj |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 far | advmod |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 fly | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 island | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 island | det |
| 14 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 far | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Wendy | punct |
| 16 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 island | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 help | punct |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 20 help | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 help | nmod:poss |
| 20 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fly | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | swim in a quote | could | you | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fly in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | without my help; far property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | help in a quote | my | nom help «act transitive»: poss=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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