Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 53

“Peter,” said Wendy the comforter, “I should love you in a beard;” and Mrs. Darling stretched out her arms to him, but he repulsed her.

Who acts: Peter, Mrs., Wendy · What happens: say, love, stretch out, repulse · To what, where: you, beard, arms, Wendy · 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, Mrs., Wendy), 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	_	2 Peter	punct
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Peter	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Peter	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 comforter	det
8	comforter	comforter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Wendy	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 love	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 love	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 love	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 love	aux
13	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	parataxis
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 love	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 beard	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 beard	det
17	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 love	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 stretched	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 ;	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stretched	cc
21	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 stretched	nsubj
22	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Mrs.	flat
23	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 stretched	compound:prt
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 arms	nmod:poss
26	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stretched	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stretched	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 repulsed	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 repulsed	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 repulsed	nsubj
32	repulsed	repulse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stretched	conj
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 repulsed	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Peter				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	love in a quote	should	Peter	you		a beard	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	stretch out	past	Mrs.	beard's arms	Wendy		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent arm=Patient to he=Result
4	repulse	past	Wendy	beard			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer

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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