Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 45

So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.

Who acts: you, us, some · What happens: let, watch, say, hurt · To what, where: us, jaggy things, hope · 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 (you, us, some), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 let	advmod
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 say	cc
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 watch	conj
7	jaggy	jaggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	amod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 say	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hope	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 hope	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hope	det
12	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 things	appos
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 hurt	obj
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 hurt	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 some	nmod
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 hurt	aux
18	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hope	acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us	tree rules
2	watch	infinitive	us not said here		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	us not said here	jaggy things	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
4	hurt	future	some	the hope	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Patient

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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