Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 21

To be sure, she did not mind noise, but she simply would not have them grabbing things, and then excusing themselves by saying that Tootles had pushed their elbow.

Who acts: meal, children · What happens: be, not mind, not have, grab, excuse, say · To what, where: noise, children, things, Tootles · 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 (meal, children), 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	To	to	PART	_	3 sure	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 sure	cop
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mind	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 mind	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mind	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 mind	advmod
8	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sure	parataxis
9	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mind	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 have	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
13	simply	simply	ADV	_	16 have	advmod
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 have	advmod
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 mind	advcl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 have	obj
18	grabbing	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 have	xcomp
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 grabbing	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 excusing	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 excusing	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 excusing	advmod
23	excusing	excuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 mind	advcl
24	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 excusing	obj
25	by	by	SCONJ	_	26 saying	mark
26	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 excusing	advcl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 pushed	mark
28	Tootles	tootle	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 pushed	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 pushed	aux
30	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 saying	ccomp
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 elbow	nmod:poss
32	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pushed	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive				sure property	tree rules
2	not mind	past · do-support	meal	noise			vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Theme
3	not have	would	meal	children = child		simply property	tree rules
4	grab	gerund	children = child not said here	things			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
5	excuse	gerund	meal not said here	children = child	then		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
6	say speech: assert	gerund	meal not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	push	past · perfect · passive		Tootles			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme elbow=Destination

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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