Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 69
Suppose, to make her happy, we whisper to her in her sleep that the brats are coming back.
Who acts: you, we, brats, Peter · What happens: suppose, make, whisper, come back, sleep · To what, where: Peter, sleep · 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, we, brats, Peter), 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 | Suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 make | mark |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Suppose | ccomp |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 make | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 whisper | punct |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 whisper | nsubj |
| 9 | whisper | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Suppose | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 whisper | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sleep | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 whisper | obl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 coming | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 brats | det |
| 17 | brats | brat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 coming | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 coming | aux |
| 19 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 sleep | acl |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 coming | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | imperative | you not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | Peter | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset her=Product | ||||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert | present | we | Peter | Peter's sleep | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | |||
| 4 | come back | present · progressive | the brats | Peter's sleep not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sleep=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sleep | Peter | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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