Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 26

One thing I should like to do immensely, and that is to tell her, in the way authors have, that the children are coming back, that indeed they will be here on Thursday week.

Who acts: One thing, that, authors, children · What happens: like, do, be, have, come back · To what, where: thing, way · 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 (One thing, that, authors, children), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thing	nummod
2	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 like	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 like	xcomp
8	immensely	immensely	ADV	_	7 do	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 tell	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	cop
13	to	to	PART	_	14 tell	mark
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 like	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 way	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 way	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 way	det
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	parataxis
20	authors	author	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 have	nsubj
21	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 way	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 coming	punct
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 coming	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 children	det
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 coming	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 coming	aux
27	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 tell	ccomp
28	back	back	ADV	_	27 coming	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 here	punct
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 here	nsubj
31	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	35 here	advmod
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 here	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 here	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 here	cop
35	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 coming	advmod
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 week	case
37	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 week	compound
38	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 here	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	like	should	One thing					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	One thing not said here				immensely property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be speech: assert	present	that		thing		tell property	tree rules
4	have	present	authors	the way not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
5	come back	present · progressive	the children					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	future	that			week	here, indeed property	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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