Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 229

“Peter, would you teach John and Michael to fly too?”

Who acts: Peter · What happens: teach, fly · To what, where: John

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 (Peter), 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	_	6 teach	punct
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 teach	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Peter	punct
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 teach	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 teach	nsubj
6	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 teach	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Michael	cc
9	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 John	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 fly	mark
11	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 teach	advcl
12	too	too	ADV	_	11 fly	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 teach	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 teach	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other in a quote	would	Peter		John and Michael				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent john=Recipient
2	fly in a quote	to-infinitive	Peter not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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