Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 65

“I shall sew it on for you, my little man,” she said, though he was tall as herself, and she got out her housewife, and sewed the shadow on to Peter’s foot.

Who acts: right, man · What happens: sew on, say, be, get out · To what, where: ignorance, housewife, shadow · 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 (right, man), 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 sew	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sew	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sew	aux
4	sew	sew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sew	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	4 sew	compound:prt
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 sew	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 man	nmod:poss
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sew	vocative
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sew	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 sew	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tall	punct
18	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 tall	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tall	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tall	cop
21	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	ccomp
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 herself	case
23	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 tall	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 got	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 got	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 got	nsubj
27	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	conj
28	out	out	ADV	_	27 got	advmod
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 housewife	nmod:poss
30	housewife	housewife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 got	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sewed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sewed	cc
33	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 shadow	det
35	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sewed	obj
36	on	on	ADP	_	33 sewed	compound:prt
37	to	to	ADP	_	40 foot	case
38	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 foot	nmod:poss
39	’s	's	PART	_	38 Peter	case
40	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sewed	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sew on in a quote	shall	right	ignorance	for you; my little man vocative	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for you=Beneficiary
2	say speech: assert	past	right			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	past	man		as right; tall property	tree rules
4	get out	past	right	right's housewife	out property	tree rules
5	sew on	past	right not said here	the shadow	to Peter's foot	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent shadow=Patient to foot=Co-Patient

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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