Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 119

“Wendy,” he said, striding up and down, “I have asked the redskins to guide you through the wood, as flying tires you so.”

Who acts: Wendy, redskins · What happens: say, stride, ask, guide, fly, tire · To what, where: redskins, you, wood · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Wendy, redskins), 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 Wendy	punct
2	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wendy	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Wendy	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 striding	punct
8	striding	stride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
9	up	up	ADV	_	8 striding	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 down	cc
11	down	down	ADV	_	9 up	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 asked	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 asked	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 asked	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 asked	aux
16	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 said	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 redskins	det
18	redskins	redskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 asked	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 guide	mark
20	guide	guide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 asked	xcomp
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 guide	obj
22	through	through	ADP	_	24 wood	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wood	det
24	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 guide	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tires	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 tires	mark
27	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 tires	nsubj
28	tires	tire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 asked	conj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 tires	obj
30	so	so	ADV	_	28 tires	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Wendy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	stride	gerund	Wendy not said here			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask in a quote	present · perfect	Wendy	the redskins		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent redskin=Recipient clause=Topic
4	guide not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the redskins not said here	you	the wood	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme through wood=Destination
5	fly in a quote	gerund				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tire in a quote	present		you		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer

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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