Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 12

In fanciful stories people can talk to the birds freely, and I wish for the moment I could pretend that this were such a story, and say that Peter replied intelligently to the Never bird; but truth is best, and I want to tell you only what really happened.

Who acts: people, I, this, Peter, truth · What happens: talk, wish, pretend, be, say, reply · To what, where: fanciful stories, story, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, I, this, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 stories	case
2	fanciful	fanciful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stories	amod
3	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 talk	obl
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 talk	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 talk	aux
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 birds	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 birds	det
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 talk	obl
10	freely	freely	ADV	_	6 talk	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wish	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wish	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 wish	nsubj
14	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 talk	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 moment	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 moment	det
17	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pretend	obl
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 pretend	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 pretend	aux
20	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wish	ccomp
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 story	mark
22	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 story	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 story	cop
24	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	26 story	det:predet
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 story	det
26	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pretend	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 say	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 say	cc
29	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 pretend	parataxis
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 replied	mark
31	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 replied	nsubj
32	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 say	ccomp
33	intelligently	intelligently	ADV	_	32 replied	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 bird	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 bird	det
36	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	37 bird	advmod
37	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 intelligently	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 best	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 best	cc
40	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 best	nsubj
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 best	cop
42	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 talk	parataxis
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 want	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 want	cc
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 want	nsubj
46	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 talk	conj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 tell	mark
48	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 want	xcomp
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 tell	iobj
50	only	only	ADV	_	51 what	advmod
51	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	53 happened	nsubj
52	really	really	ADV	_	53 happened	advmod
53	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 tell	ccomp
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	can	people			fanciful stories		to the birds; freely property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to bird=Co-Agent
2	wish	present	I						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	pretend	could	I				moment		tree rules
4	is a	past	this	such story					tree rules
5	say speech: assert	infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	reply speech: assert	past	Peter					intelligently property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	truth					good property	tree rules
8	want	present	I						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
9	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
10	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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