Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 82

“Father, we want to dance.”

Who acts: we, Father · What happens: want, dance · To what, where: Father

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 (we, 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 Father	punct
2	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Father	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 dance	mark
7	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 want	xcomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Father	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Father	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	we	Father not said here					tree rules
2	dance not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Father not said here						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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