Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 171

“If you find your mothers,” he said darkly, “I hope you will like them.”

Who acts: you, departure · What happens: find, say, hope, like · To what, where: mothers, others · 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 (you, departure), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 find	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
4	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mothers	nmod:poss
6	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	darkly	darkly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hope	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 hope	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 hope	nsubj
15	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 like	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 like	aux
18	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 hope	ccomp
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 like	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	your mothers		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	departure		darkly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hope in a quote	present	departure			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	like in a quote	future	you	others = other		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=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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