Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 49

“As I can’t be anything important,” said Tootles, “would any of you like to see me do a trick?”

Who acts: Tootles, any · What happens: not be, say, like, see, do · To what, where: Tootles, trick · 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 (Tootles, any), 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	_	8 important	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 important	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 important	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 important	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 important	cop
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 important	obl:unmarked
8	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 important	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 important	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Tootles	tootle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 like	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 like	punct
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 like	aux
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 like	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 any	nmod
19	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 see	mark
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 like	xcomp
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 see	obj
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 see	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 trick	det
25	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 do	obj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	can	Tootles = tootle		anything obl:unmarked; important property	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	Tootles			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	like in a quote	would	any			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	see not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	any not said here	Tootles = tootle		tree rules
5	do in a quote	infinitive	Tootles = tootle not said here	a trick		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=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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