Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 44
“As I can’t be father,” he said heavily, “I don’t suppose, Michael, you would let me be baby?”
Who acts: Father, you · What happens: not be, say, not suppose, let, be · To what, where: father, Michael, baby · 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 (Father, 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 father | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 father | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 father | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 father | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 father | cop |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 father | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 father | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 suppose | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 suppose | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 suppose | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 suppose | aux |
| 17 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 suppose | advmod |
| 18 | suppose | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Michael | punct |
| 20 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 suppose | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 let | punct |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 let | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 let | aux |
| 24 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 suppose | parataxis |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 let | obj |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 baby | cop |
| 27 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 let | xcomp |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | can | Father | father | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Father | heavily property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not suppose in a quote | present · do-support | Father | Michael | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent michael=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | let in a quote | would | you | Father | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | infinitive | Father not said here | baby | 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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