Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 73

Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked.

Who acts: we, world, children · What happens: skip, be, have, return, reward, smack · To what, where: heartless things, need, we, special attention

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 (we, world, children), 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	Off	off	ADP	_	3 skip	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 skip	nsubj
3	skip	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	8 things	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 things	det
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 heartless	advmod
7	heartless	heartless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	amod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 skip	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 things	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 what	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 what	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 what	cop
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 world	conj
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 attractive	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 attractive	cop
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 attractive	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 attractive	cc
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 attractive	advmod
21	attractive	attractive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 what	acl:relcl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 have	cc
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 have	nsubj
25	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 skip	conj
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 time	det
27	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	29 time	advmod
28	selfish	selfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 time	compound
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 have	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 have	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 have	advmod
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 have	advmod
34	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 have	nsubj
35	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 skip	conj
36	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 have	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 attention	case
38	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 attention	amod
39	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 need	nmod
40	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 return	nsubj
41	nobly	nobly	ADV	_	42 return	advmod
42	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 need	acl:relcl
43	for	for	ADP	_	44 it	case
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 return	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 confident	punct
46	confident	confident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 return	xcomp
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 rewarded	mark
48	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 rewarded	nsubj
49	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 rewarded	aux
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 rewarded	aux:pass
51	rewarded	reward	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 confident	advcl
52	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	54 smacked	case
53	of	of	ADP	_	52 instead	fixed
54	smacked	smack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 rewarded	xcomp
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 skip	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	skip	present	we			like the heartless things in the world	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	the world	the heartless things in the world			tree rules
3	is	present	children			attractive property	tree rules
4	have	present	we		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	have	present	we	need of special attention	then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient
6	return	present	we	need of special attention not said here		for attention; confident, nobly property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Theme
7	reward	shall · passive		we			tree rules
8	smack	participle					vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
9	need			special attention			nom need «state transitive»: of=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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