Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 38

I had meant to say extraordinarily nice things about her; but I despise her, and not one of them will I say now.

Who acts: I, one · What happens: mean, say, despise · To what, where: nice things, thing · 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 (I, one), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 meant	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 meant	aux
3	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 meant	xcomp
6	extraordinarily	extraordinarily	ADV	_	7 nice	advmod
7	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	amod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 things	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 despise	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 despise	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 despise	nsubj
14	despise	despise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 meant	parataxis
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 despise	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 say	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 say	cc
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 one	advmod
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 say	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 one	nmod
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 say	aux
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 say	nsubj
24	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 despise	conj
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 say	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 meant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past · perfect	I				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	nice things		about thing	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
3	despise	present	I	thing			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	future	one of boys		now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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