Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 101

“Would you like an adventure now,” he said casually to John, “or would you like to have your tea first?”

Who acts: John, courage · What happens: like, say, have · To what, where: adventure, John, tea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, courage), 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 like	punct
2	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 adventure	det
6	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 like	obj
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 like	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 like	parataxis
12	casually	casually	ADV	_	11 said	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 John	case
14	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 like	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 like	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 like	cc
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 like	aux
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 like	nsubj
20	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 have	mark
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 like	xcomp
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 tea	nmod:poss
24	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
25	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 have	advmod
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	like in a quote	would	John	a adventure		now		tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	courage		John		casually property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to john=Recipient
3	like in a quote	would	John					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	have not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	John not said here	your tea			first property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=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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