Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 32

“Sit in father’s chair, John!”

Who acts: you · What happens: sit · To what, where: John, chair

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), 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	_	2 Sit	punct
2	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 chair	case
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chair	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 father	case
6	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Sit	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 John	punct
8	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Sit	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit in a quote	imperative	you not said here	John		father's chair			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location

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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