Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 139
“Dear ones,” she said, “if you will all come with me I feel almost sure I can get my father and mother to adopt you.”
Who acts: Dear ones, you, I · What happens: say, come, feel, get, adopt · To what, where: father, you · 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 (Dear ones, you, I), 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 | _ | 3 ones | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ones | amod |
| 3 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ones | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ones | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 feel | advcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 come | obl |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 feel | nsubj |
| 18 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 19 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 20 sure | advmod |
| 20 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feel | xcomp |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 get | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 get | aux |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sure | ccomp |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 father | nmod:poss |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 get | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 mother | cc |
| 27 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 father | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 adopt | mark |
| 29 | adopt | adopt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 get | advcl |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 adopt | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Dear ones | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | with me; all property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feel in a quote | present | I | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | can | I | my father and mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | adopt in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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