Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 44

Then John was born, with the extra pomp that he conceived due to the birth of a male, and Michael came from his bath to ask to be born also, but John said brutally that they did not want any more.

Who acts: Mr., Michael, John · What happens: bear, conceive, come, ask, say, not want · To what, where: John, bath · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Mr., Michael, John), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 John	advmod
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 born	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 born	aux:pass
4	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pomp	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 pomp	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pomp	det
8	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pomp	amod
9	pomp	pomp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 born	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 conceived	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 conceived	nsubj
12	conceived	conceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pomp	advcl
13	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	16 birth	case
14	to	to	ADP	_	13 due	fixed
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 birth	det
16	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 conceived	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 male	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 male	det
19	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 birth	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
22	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 born	conj
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 bath	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 bath	nmod:poss
26	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 ask	mark
28	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 came	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	31 born	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 born	aux:pass
31	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 ask	xcomp
32	also	also	ADV	_	31 born	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 said	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 said	cc
35	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 said	nsubj
36	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 born	conj
37	brutally	brutally	ADV	_	36 said	advmod
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 want	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 want	nsubj
40	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 want	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 want	advmod
42	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 said	ccomp
43	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	44 more	det
44	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	42 want	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 born	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		John			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	conceive	past	Mr.			due the birth of a male	vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	Michael		Mr.'s bath		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bath=Initial_Location
4	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	Michael not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	bear not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	Michael not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»
6	say speech: assert	past	John			brutally property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	not want	past · do-support	John				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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