Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 165

“I thought you would want it back,” he said a little bitterly, and offered to return her the thimble.

Who acts: I, you, John · What happens: think, want back, say, offer, return · To what, where: ignorance, 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 (I, you, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 want	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 want	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 want	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 little	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bitterly	obl:unmarked
15	bitterly	bitterly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 offered	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 offered	cc
18	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 return	mark
20	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 offered	xcomp
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 return	obj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 thimble	det
23	thimble	thimble	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 return	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	past	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	want back in a quote	would	you	ignorance		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	John		bitterly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	offer	participle	John not said here			tree rules
5	return not said to happen	to-infinitive	John not said here	Wendy		vn reciprocate-112 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Theme thimble=Eventuality

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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