Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 8

“I must say,” he said to Wendy, “that you don’t do things by halves,” a grudging remark which the twins thought was pointed at them.

Who acts: Mr., you, twins · What happens: say, not do, think, point · To what, where: Wendy, things, grudging remark · 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 (Mr., you, twins), 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	_	4 say	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Wendy	case
10	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 do	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 do	nsubj
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
16	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 do	advmod
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	conj
18	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 do	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 halves	case
20	halves	half	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 do	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 remark	det
24	grudging	grudging	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 remark	compound
25	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pointed	nsubj:pass
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 thought	obj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 twins	det
28	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 thought	nsubj
29	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 remark	acl:relcl
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 pointed	aux:pass
31	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 say	ccomp
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 pointed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	must	Mr.				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	Mr.		Wendy		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wendy=Recipient
3	not do in a quote	present · do-support	you	things		by halves	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	past	the twins	a grudging remark			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=Theme
5	point	past · passive		a grudging remark		at boys = boy	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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