Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 105

“Let’s keep her prisoner.”

Who acts: you, ’s · What happens: let, keep · To what, where: ’s, prisoner

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ’s), 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 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	’s	we	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 prisoner	nmod:poss
6	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	’s					tree rules
2	keep in a quote	infinitive	’s not said here	Panic's prisoner					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=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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