Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 39

She does not really need to be told to have things ready, for they are ready.

Who acts: thing, boys · What happens: not need, tell, have, be · To what, where: things · 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 (thing, boys), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 need	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 need	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 need	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 need	advmod
5	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 told	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	aux:pass
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 need	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 have	mark
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	xcomp
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 have	obj
12	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 have	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ready	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 ready	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ready	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 ready	cop
17	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ready	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 need	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not need	present · do-support	thing			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	thing not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: clause=Topic
3	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	thing not said here	things	ready property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
4	is	present	boys = boy		ready 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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