Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 110

“You see,” he continued apologetically, “it would make me seem so old to be their real father.”

Who acts: You, Wendy, change · What happens: see, continue, make, seem, be · To what, where: Wendy, real father · 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 (You, Wendy, change), 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 see	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 continued	nsubj
7	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 see	ccomp
8	apologetically	apologetically	ADV	_	7 continued	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 make	aux
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 see	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 make	obj
15	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 make	xcomp
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 old	advmod
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 seem	xcomp
18	to	to	PART	_	22 father	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 father	cop
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 father	nmod:poss
21	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 father	amod
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 old	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	present	You			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	continue	past	Wendy		apologetically property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make in a quote	would	change	Wendy		tree rules
4	seem in a quote	infinitive	Wendy not said here		old property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	is a in a quote	to-infinitive	Wendy not said here	nighties's real father		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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