Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 146

“Let us creep in,” John suggested, “and put our hands over her eyes.”

Who acts: you, us, John · What happens: let, creep in, suggest, put · To what, where: us, hands, eyes · 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 (you, us, John), 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	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 creep	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
8	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 suggested	nsubj
9	suggested	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 put	cc
13	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 suggested	ccomp
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hands	nmod:poss
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 put	obj
16	over	over	ADP	_	18 eyes	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 eyes	nmod:poss
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 put	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	us		tree rules
2	creep in in a quote	infinitive	us not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	suggest speech: suggest	past	John			vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	put in a quote	infinitive		our hands	hand's eyes	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme over eye=Destination

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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