Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 46

“And if he forgets them so quickly,” Wendy argued, “how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?”

Who acts: mermaid, Wendy, we · What happens: forget, argue, expect, go, remember · To what, where: children, 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 (mermaid, Wendy, we), 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	_	12 argued	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 forgets	cc
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 forgets	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forgets	nsubj
5	forgets	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 argued	parataxis
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forgets	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 quickly	advmod
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	5 forgets	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 forgets	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 forgets	punct
11	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 argued	nsubj
12	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 expect	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 expect	punct
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 expect	advmod
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 expect	aux
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 expect	nsubj
18	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 argued	ccomp
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 go	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 go	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 go	aux
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 expect	xcomp
23	on	on	SCONJ	_	24 remembering	mark
24	remembering	remember	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 go	advcl
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 remembering	obj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 argued	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 argued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forget a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	mermaid	children = child	quickly property	tree rules
2	argue speech: disagree	past	Wendy			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	expect in a quote	can	we			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	go not said to happen, in a quote	future	mermaid			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	remember in a quote	gerund	mermaid not said here	us		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent we=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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