Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 58

If you could keep awake (but of course you can’t) you would see your own mother doing this, and you would find it very interesting to watch her.

Who acts: you, own mother · What happens: keep, see, do, find, watch · To what, where: own mother, this, course, mother

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 (you, own mother), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 keep	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 keep	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 keep	xcomp
6	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 see	cc
8	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	11 ca	advmod
9	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 of	fixed
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 ca	nsubj
11	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 see	aux
12	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 ca	advmod
13	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 ca	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 see	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 see	aux
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 keep	conj
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mother	amod
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	obj
20	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 mother	acl
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 doing	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 find	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 find	cc
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 find	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 find	aux
26	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 see	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 find	obj
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 interesting	advmod
29	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 find	xcomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 watch	mark
31	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 interesting	advcl
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 watch	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	could	you		awake property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	see	would	you	your own mother		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus
3	do	gerund	your own mother not said here	this		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
4	find	would	you	course	interesting property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	watch	to-infinitive	you not said here	mother		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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