Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 38

“And even though we became good at picking up food, see how we bump against clouds and things if he is not near to give us a hand.”

Who acts: we, thing · What happens: become, pick up, see, bump, not be, give · To what, where: food, clouds, hand, us · 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 (we, thing), 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 became	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 became	cc
3	even	even	ADV	_	6 became	advmod
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 became	mark
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 became	nsubj
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 became	xcomp
8	at	at	SCONJ	_	9 picking	mark
9	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 became	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 picking	compound:prt
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 picking	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 picking	advcl
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 bump	advmod
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 bump	nsubj
16	bump	bump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 see	ccomp
17	against	against	ADP	_	18 clouds	case
18	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bump	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 things	cc
20	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 clouds	conj
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 near	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 near	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 near	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 near	advmod
25	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bump	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 give	mark
27	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 near	xcomp
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 give	iobj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 hand	det
30	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 give	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 became	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	become in a quote	past	we				good property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	pick up in a quote	gerund	we not said here	food				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic
3	see in a quote	infinitive	we not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	bump in a quote	present	we			clouds and things		vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against cloud=Location
5	not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	thing				near property	tree rules
6	give in a quote	to-infinitive	thing not said here	a hand	us			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient hand=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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