Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 162

“No, no,” he told Wendy decisively; “perhaps she would say I was old, and I just want always to be a little boy and to have fun.”

Who acts: departure, Wendy · What happens: tell, say, be, want, have · To what, where: Wendy, little boy, fun · 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 (departure, Wendy), 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	_	8 told	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 told	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 No	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 told	iobj
10	decisively	decisively	ADV	_	8 told	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
13	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	16 say	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 say	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 say	aux
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	conj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 old	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 old	cop
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 say	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 want	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 want	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 want	nsubj
23	just	just	ADV	_	24 want	advmod
24	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 told	ccomp
25	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	24 want	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	30 boy	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 boy	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 boy	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 boy	amod
30	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 want	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 have	cc
32	to	to	PART	_	33 have	mark
33	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 boy	conj
34	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 have	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	departure		Wendy	decisively property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent wendy=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	would	Wendy			perhaps property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	past	departure			old property	tree rules
4	want in a quote	present	departure			always property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	is a not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	departure not said here	a little boy			tree rules
6	have in a quote	to-infinitive	departure not said here	fun			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient

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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