Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 64

“I must have somebody in a cradle,” she said almost tartly, “and you are the littlest.

Who acts: telling, you · What happens: have, say, be · To what, where: somebody, cradle · 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 (telling, 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	_	4 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
5	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 have	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cradle	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cradle	det
8	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 somebody	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	almost	almost	ADV	_	14 tartly	advmod
14	tartly	tartly	ADV	_	12 said	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 littlest	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 littlest	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 littlest	cc
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 littlest	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 littlest	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 littlest	det
21	littlest	little	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 said	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	must	telling	somebody	a cradle		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent somebody=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	telling			tartly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	you			little property	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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