Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 59

“Let us now,” said Wendy, bracing herself up for her finest effort, “take a peep into the future;” and they all gave themselves the twist that makes peeps into the future easier.

Who acts: Wendy, children, twist · What happens: let, say, brace up, take, give, make · To what, where: us, Wendy, peep, future, children, peeps · 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 (Wendy, children, twist), 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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Let	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bracing	punct
10	bracing	brace	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 bracing	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 bracing	compound:prt
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 effort	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 effort	nmod:poss
15	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 effort	amod
16	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bracing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 peep	det
21	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 future	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 future	det
24	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gave	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 gave	nsubj
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 gave	advmod
30	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
31	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 gave	obj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 twist	det
33	twist	twist	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gave	obj
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 makes	nsubj
35	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 twist	acl:relcl
36	peeps	peep	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 makes	obj
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 future	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 future	det
39	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 makes	obl
40	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 makes	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		us		now		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Wendy					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	brace up	gerund	Wendy not said here	Wendy			for Wendy's finest effort	tree rules
4	take in a quote	infinitive		a peep	the future			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent peep=Theme into future=Destination
5	give	past	children = child	children = child				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient twist=Theme
6	make	present	the twist	peeps	the future		easy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent peep=Material into future=Product

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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