Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 149

“Why can’t you fly now, mother?”

Who acts: you · What happens: not fly

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	9 mother	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 fly	advmod
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fly	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 fly	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 fly	nsubj
6	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mother	advcl
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 fly	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fly	punct
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 mother	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fly in a quote	can	you				now		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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