Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 120

“I feel that I have a message to you from your real mothers, and it is this: ‘We hope our sons will die like English gentlemen.’”

Who acts: Britannia, message, We, sons · What happens: feel, have, be, hope, die · To what, where: message, this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Britannia, message, We, sons), 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	_	3 feel	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 feel	nsubj
3	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 have	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 message	det
8	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 message	nmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 mothers	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mothers	nmod:poss
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mothers	amod
14	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 this	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 this	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 this	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 this	cop
19	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 feel	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 hope	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 hope	punct
22	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 hope	nsubj
23	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	parataxis
24	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sons	nmod:poss
25	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 die	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 die	aux
27	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 hope	ccomp
28	like	like	ADP	_	30 gentlemen	case
29	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 gentlemen	amod
30	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 die	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 feel	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 feel	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 feel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel in a quote	present	Britannia			vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have in a quote	present	Britannia	a message	to you; from your real mothers	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Patient
3	is a in a quote	present	message	this		tree rules
4	hope in a quote	present	We			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	die in a quote	future	our sons		like English gentlemen	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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