Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 132

“I would almost rather have no children at all,” she said disdainfully.

Who acts: Curly · What happens: have, say · To what, where: children, all · 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 (Curly), 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	_	14 said	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 rather	advmod
5	rather	rather	ADV	_	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 children	det
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 have	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	disdainfully	disdainfully	ADV	_	14 said	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	would	Curly	no children		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Curly					disdainfully property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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