Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 298
It was saying, “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
Who acts: tremour · What happens: say, die, be · To what, where: big adventure · 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 (tremour), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saying | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saying | aux |
| 3 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 die | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 die | punct |
| 6 | To | to | PART | _ | 7 die | mark |
| 7 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saying | ccomp |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 adventure | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 adventure | cop |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 adventure | det |
| 11 | awfully | awfully | ADV | _ | 12 big | advmod |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 adventure | amod |
| 13 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 die | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saying | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · progressive | tremour | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | die in a quote | to-infinitive | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | future | a big adventure | tree rules |
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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