Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 162

“That’s Michael,” she said, and she stretched out her arms for the three little selfish children they would never envelop again.

Who acts: Michael, arms · What happens: say, stretch out, not envelop · To what, where: arms, selfish children · 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, arms), 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	_	8 said	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 ’s	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
4	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ’s	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ’s	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 ’s	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stretched	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stretched	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stretched	nsubj
12	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 stretched	compound:prt
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 arms	nmod:poss
15	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stretched	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	21 children	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 selfish	det
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 selfish	nummod
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 selfish	amod
20	selfish	selfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 children	compound
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stretched	obl
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 envelop	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 envelop	aux
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 envelop	advmod
25	envelop	envelop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 children	acl:relcl
26	again	again	ADV	_	25 envelop	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Michael				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stretch out	past	Michael	Michael's arms		for selfish children	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
3	not envelop	would	arms = arm	selfish children not said here	again		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme child=Co-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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