Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 163

“And I know you meant to be kind,” she said, relenting, “so you may give me a kiss.”

Who acts: Wendy, you · What happens: know, mean, be, say, relent, give · To what, where: kiss, Wendy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wendy, you), 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	_	13 said	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 know	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 meant	nsubj
6	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	9 kind	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 kind	cop
9	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 meant	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 relenting	punct
15	relenting	relent	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 give	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 give	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 give	advmod
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 give	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 give	aux
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 relenting	conj
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 give	iobj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 kiss	det
24	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	Wendy				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	mean in a quote	past	you				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here			kind property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	Wendy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	relent	gerund	Wendy not said here				tree rules
6	give in a quote	may	you	a kiss	Wendy		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient kiss=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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