Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 42
However, as we are here we may as well stay and look on.
Who acts: we · What happens: be, stay, look on
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), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 11 stay | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 here | case |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 here | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 here | cop |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 stay | obl |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 stay | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 stay | aux |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 11 stay | cc |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 as | fixed |
| 11 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 look | cc |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 stay | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 look | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | we | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay | may | we | however property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look on | infinitive | we not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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