Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 31

We are beginning to know Mrs. Darling by this time, and may be sure that she would upbraid us for depriving the children of their little pleasure.

Who acts: We, Mrs., children · What happens: begin, know, be, upbraid, deprive, please · To what, where: Mrs., us, children

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 (We, Mrs., 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 beginning	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 beginning	aux
3	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 know	mark
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 beginning	xcomp
6	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 know	obj
7	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Mrs.	flat
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sure	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sure	cc
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 sure	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 sure	cop
15	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beginning	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 upbraid	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 upbraid	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 upbraid	aux
19	upbraid	upbraid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 sure	ccomp
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 upbraid	obj
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 depriving	mark
22	depriving	deprive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 upbraid	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 children	det
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 depriving	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 pleasure	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 pleasure	nmod:poss
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 pleasure	amod
28	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 children	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 beginning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	present · progressive	We				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	know	to-infinitive	We not said here	Mrs.	time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer mrs.=Stimulus
3	is	may				sure property	tree rules
4	upbraid	would	Mrs.	us			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
5	deprive	gerund	Mrs. not said here	the children of children's little pleasure			vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Source
6	please		children = child				nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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