Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 50

“I know she admires you tremendously, George,” Mrs. Darling would assure him, and then she would sign to the children to be specially nice to father.

Who acts: Darling, Nana, Mrs. Darling · What happens: know, admire, assure, sign, be · To what, where: you, pound, children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darling, Nana, Mrs. Darling), 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	_	3 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 Darling	parataxis
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 admires	nsubj
5	admires	admire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 know	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 admires	obj
7	tremendously	tremendously	ADV	_	5 admires	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 George	punct
9	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 know	vocative
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
12	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Darling	compound
13	Darling	darling	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 assure	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 assure	aux
15	assure	assure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 assure	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sign	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sign	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 sign	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sign	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 sign	aux
22	sign	sign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 assure	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 children	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 children	det
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sign	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	29 nice	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 nice	cop
28	specially	specially	ADV	_	29 nice	advmod
29	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sign	xcomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 father	mark
31	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 nice	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 assure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	Darling				George vocative	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	admire in a quote	present	Nana	you			tremendously property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	assure	would	Mrs. Darling		pound			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	sign	would	Nana		the children	then		vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient
5	is	to-infinitive	Nana not said here				nice, specially 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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