Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 54

“I do like a mother’s love,” said Tootles, hitting Nibs with a pillow.

Who acts: Tootles, mother · What happens: like, say, hit, love · To what, where: love, Nibs · 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 (Tootles, mother), 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	_	4 like	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mother	det
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 love	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 mother	case
8	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 like	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Tootles	tootle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hitting	punct
14	hitting	hit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
15	Nibs	nib	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hitting	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 pillow	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pillow	det
18	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hitting	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like in a quote	present · do-support	Tootles = tootle	a mother's love		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot love=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Tootles			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hit	gerund	Tootles not said here	Nibs	with a pillow	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent nib=Patient with pillow=Instrument
4	love in a quote		a mother			nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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