Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 80
“Better do what the captain orders,” said Starkey nervously.
Who acts: Better, Starkey · What happens: do, say · 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 (Better, Starkey), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | Better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 said | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 orders | det |
| 6 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 orders | compound |
| 7 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 orders | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 orders | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | conj |
| 11 | Starkey | Starkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | nervously | nervously | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | Better | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Starkey | nervously property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=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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