Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 84

Didst never want to be a pirate, my hearty?”

What happens: not want, 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: 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	Didst	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 want	aux
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 want	advmod
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 pirate	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 pirate	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pirate	det
7	pirate	pirate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 want	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hearty	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hearty	nmod:poss
10	hearty	hearty	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pirate	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support							vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a	to-infinitive		a pirate and my hearty					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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