Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 50

“I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things,” he told her passionately.

Who acts: man · What happens: not want, go, learn, tell · To what, where: school, solemn things, Mrs. · 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 (man), 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 want	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 told	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 want	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 school	case
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 learn	cc
11	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	conj
12	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 things	amod
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 learn	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	nsubj
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	iobj
19	passionately	passionately	ADV	_	17 told	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not want in a quote	present · do-support	man					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	man not said here			school		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location
3	learn in a quote	infinitive	man not said here	solemn things				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	past	man		Mrs.		passionately property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic

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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