Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 77

Would your mother like you to be a pirate, Slightly?”

Who acts: mother · What happens: be · To what, where: pirate

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 (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	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 mother	aux
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pirate	nsubj
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod
6	to	to	PART	_	9 pirate	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 pirate	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pirate	det
9	pirate	pirate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Slightly	punct
11	Slightly	slightly	ADV	_	9 pirate	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 pirate	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 pirate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	to-infinitive	your mother like you	a pirate				slightly property	tree rules

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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