Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 92

“Won’t you play me to sleep,” he asked, “on the nursery piano?” and as she was crossing to the day-nursery he added thoughtlessly, “And shut that window.

Who acts: you, man, corner · What happens: not play, sleep, ask, cross, add, shut · To what, where: man, day nursery, window · 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, man, corner), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 play	punct
2	Wo	wo	INTJ	_	5 play	discourse
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 play	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 play	nsubj
5	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 asked	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 play	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sleep	mark
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 play	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 play	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 play	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 asked	nsubj
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 piano	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 piano	punct
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 piano	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 piano	det
17	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 piano	compound
18	piano	piano	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asked	ccomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 piano	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 piano	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 crossing	cc
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 crossing	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 crossing	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 crossing	aux
25	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 asked	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	30 nursery	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 nursery	det
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 nursery	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 day	punct
30	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 crossing	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 added	nsubj
32	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 nursery	acl:relcl
33	thoughtlessly	thoughtlessly	ADV	_	32 added	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 shut	punct
35	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 shut	punct
36	And	and	CCONJ	_	37 shut	cc
37	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 asked	conj
38	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 window	det
39	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 shut	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not play in a quote	present	you	man			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	sleep in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	past	man				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	cross	past · progressive	corner		the day nursery		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to nursery=Initial_Location
5	add speech: assert	past	man	the day nursery not said here		thoughtlessly property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nursery=Patient
6	shut in a quote	past	man not said here	that window			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent window=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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