Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 140

“It is very careless of mother,” said that young scoundrel John, “not to be here when we come back.”

Who acts: chill, young scoundrel · What happens: be, say, not come back · 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 (chill, young scoundrel), 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	_	5 careless	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 careless	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 careless	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 careless	advmod
5	careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 mother	case
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 careless	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 careless	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 careless	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 come	mark
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 scoundrel	amod
13	scoundrel	scoundrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	nsubj
14	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 scoundrel	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 come	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	20 here	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 here	cop
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 come	advcl
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 come	advmod
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
23	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
24	back	back	ADV	_	23 come	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	chill	of mother; careless property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	to-infinitive	young scoundrel not said here	here property	tree rules
4	not come back in a quote	present	young scoundrel		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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