Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 103

“Dear Peter,” she said, “with such a large family, of course, I have now passed my best, but you don’t want to change me, do you?”

Who acts: Dear Peter · What happens: say, pass, not want, change, do · To what, where: Dear Peter, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dear 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 Peter	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Peter	amod
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Peter	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 Peter	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 family	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 family	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	14 family	case
11	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	14 family	det:predet
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 family	det
13	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 family	amod
14	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 passed	punct
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	22 passed	mark
17	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 of	fixed
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 of	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 passed	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 passed	aux
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 passed	advmod
22	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 want	advcl
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 best	nmod:poss
24	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 passed	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 do	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 do	cc
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 do	nsubj
28	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 want	aux
29	n’t	n't	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 want	aux
30	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 change	mark
32	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 want	xcomp
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 change	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 do	punct
35	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 want	parataxis
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 do	obj
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	30 want	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	Dear Peter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pass in a quote	present · perfect	Dear Peter = peter		now	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not want in a quote	present · do-support				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	change not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive		Dear Peter = peter		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5	do in a quote	present		you		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality

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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