Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 141

“But won’t they think us rather a handful?”

Who acts: boys · What happens: not think · To what, where: us

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 (boys), 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	_	6 think	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 think	cc
3	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 think	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
6	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 think	obj
8	rather	rather	ADV	_	10 handful	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 handful	det
10	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 think	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other in a quote	future	boys = boy	us				a handful obl	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot we=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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