Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 161

I am only the breadwinner, why should I be coddled—why, why, why!”

Who acts: I · What happens: be, coddle · To what, where: breadwinner, I

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 breadwinner	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 breadwinner	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 breadwinner	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 breadwinner	det
5	breadwinner	breadwinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 coddled	punct
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 coddled	advmod
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 coddled	aux
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 coddled	nsubj
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 coddled	aux:pass
11	coddled	coddle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 breadwinner	conj
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	13 why	punct
13	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 coddled	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 why	punct
15	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 why	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 why	punct
17	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 breadwinner	parataxis
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 breadwinner	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 breadwinner	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	the breadwinner					tree rules
2	coddle	should · passive		I					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: 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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