Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 134
“Let me see father,” Michael begged eagerly, and he took a good look.
Who acts: Michael, father · What happens: let, see, beg, take · To what, where: Michael, father, good look · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michael, father), 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 begged | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 8 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 begged | nsubj |
| 9 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 9 begged | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 begged | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 look | det |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 look | amod |
| 17 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | Michael | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | Michael not said here | father | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | Michael | eagerly property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | take | past | father | a good look | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Theme |
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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