Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 9

The first twin was the proud one, and he asked, flushing, “Do you think we should be too much of a handful, sir?

Who acts: first twin, Mr., you, we · What happens: be, ask, flush, think · To what, where: proud one · 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 (first twin, Mr., you, we), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 twin	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 twin	amod
3	twin	twin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 asked	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flushing	punct
13	flushing	flush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 asked	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 think	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 think	punct
16	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 think	aux
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 think	nsubj
18	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 flushing	conj
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 much	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 much	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 much	cop
22	too	too	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 think	ccomp
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 handful	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 handful	det
26	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 much	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sir	punct
28	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 handful	conj
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the first twin	the proud one		tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	Mr.			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	flush	gerund	Mr. not said here			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other in a quote	present · do-support	you			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	should	we		of a handful and sir; much property	tree rules

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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