Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 171

“The last thing he ever said to me was, ‘Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.’”

Who acts: Peter, last thing, you, Jane · What happens: say, wait, hear, crow · To what, where: last thing, Jane · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Peter, last thing, you, Jane), 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	_	16 waiting	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 waiting	nsubj:outer
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 said	advmod
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thing	acl:relcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 said	obl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 waiting	aux
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 waiting	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 waiting	punct
13	Just	just	ADV	_	14 always	advmod
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 waiting	advmod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 waiting	aux
16	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 waiting	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hear	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hear	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 hear	advmod
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 night	det
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hear	obl:unmarked
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 hear	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 hear	aux
26	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 waiting	conj
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 hear	obj
28	crowing	crow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 hear	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 waiting	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 waiting	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 waiting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Peter	the last thing not said here	Jane	ever		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Topic to i=Recipient
2	wait in a quote	past · progressive	the last thing				for Jane; always property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear in a quote	future	you	Jane		then; night		tree rules
4	crow in a quote	gerund	Jane not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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