Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 217

“Wendy,” he said, “how we should all respect you.”

Who acts: Wendy, we · What happens: say, respect · To what, where: you · 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, we), 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 Wendy	punct
2	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wendy	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Wendy	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 respect	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 respect	punct
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 respect	advmod
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 respect	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 respect	aux
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 respect	advmod
13	respect	respect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 respect	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 respect	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 respect	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Wendy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	respect in a quote	should	we	you				all property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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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