Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 69

“Children, I hear your father’s step.

Who acts: Children, father · What happens: hear, step · To what, where: step

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 (Children, father), 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 Children	punct
2	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hear	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Children	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 hear	nsubj
5	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 step	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 father	case
9	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	present	Children	your father's step					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer step=Stimulus
2	step in a quote		your father						nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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