Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 46

“Don’t have a mother,” he said.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: not have, say · To what, where: mother · 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 (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	_	4 have	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mother	det
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have in a quote	infinitive · do-support		a mother					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Peter						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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