Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 71

“Let me try, dear,” she said, and indeed that was what he had come to ask her to do, and with her nice cool hands she tied his tie for him, while the children stood around to see their fate decided.

Who acts: Mrs., that, George, children, fate · What happens: let, try, say, be, come, ask · To what, where: Mrs., tie · 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 (Mrs., that, George, children), 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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dear	punct
6	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Let	vocative
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 come	cc
13	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	16 what	advmod
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 what	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 what	cop
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 come	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 come	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 ask	mark
21	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 come	advcl
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ask	iobj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 do	mark
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 ask	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tied	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 tied	cc
27	with	with	ADP	_	31 hands	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hands	nmod:poss
29	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hands	amod
30	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hands	amod
31	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 tied	obl
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tied	nsubj
33	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 tie	nmod:poss
35	tie	tie	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tied	obj
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tied	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 stood	punct
39	while	while	SCONJ	_	42 stood	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 children	det
41	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 stood	nsubj
42	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 tied	conj
43	around	around	ADV	_	42 stood	advmod
44	to	to	PART	_	45 see	mark
45	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 stood	advcl
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 fate	nmod:poss
47	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 decided	nsubj
48	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 see	ccomp
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		Mrs.		dear vocative	tree rules
2	try in a quote	infinitive	Mrs. not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	Mrs.				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is a	past	that			indeed property	tree rules
5	come	past · perfect	George				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	George not said here		Mrs.		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
7	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	George not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	tie	past	Mrs.	George's tie		with Mrs.'s nice cool hands; for George	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent tie=Patient with hand=Co-Patient
9	stand around	past	the children			around property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	see	to-infinitive	the children not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
11	decide	past	children's fate				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
12	fate		children = child				nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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