Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 43

She told Peter that she had adopted all the other boys, and would like to adopt him also.

Who acts: Mrs. · What happens: tell, adopt, like · To what, where: Peter, other boys · 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 (Mrs.), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 adopted	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 adopted	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 adopted	aux
7	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	ccomp
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 boys	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boys	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boys	amod
11	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 adopted	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 like	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 like	cc
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 like	aux
15	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 adopt	mark
17	adopt	adopt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 like	xcomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 adopt	obj
19	also	also	ADV	_	17 adopt	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Mrs.		Peter	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent peter=Recipient clause=Topic
2	adopt	past · perfect	Mrs.	all other boys		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme
3	like	would	Mrs. not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	adopt not said to happen	to-infinitive	Mrs. not said here	Peter		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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