Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 32

“But, my dear madam, it is ten days till Thursday week; so that by telling you what’s what, we can save you ten days of unhappiness.”

Who acts: pleasure, dear madam · What happens: be, tell, save · To what, where: ten days, you · 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 (pleasure, dear madam), 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	_	27 save	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	27 save	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 But	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 madam	nmod:poss
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 madam	amod
6	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 save	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 days	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 days	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 days	cop
10	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 days	nummod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 madam	appos
12	till	till	ADP	_	14 week	case
13	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 week	compound
14	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 days	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 save	punct
16	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 save	mark
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 so	fixed
18	by	by	SCONJ	_	19 telling	mark
19	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 save	advcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 telling	iobj
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 ’s	nsubj
22	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 telling	ccomp
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 ’s	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 telling	punct
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 save	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 save	aux
27	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 save	obj
29	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 days	nummod
30	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 save	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 unhappiness	case
32	unhappiness	unhappiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 days	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 save	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	pleasure	ten days		week	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	gerund	my dear madam not said here		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	save in a quote	can	my dear madam	you		day	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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