Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 77

Show me, and I’ll tell you by the way smoke curls whether they are on the war-path.”

Who acts: you, I, smoke, John · What happens: show, tell, curl, be · To what, where: me, you, way, war path · 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 (you, I, smoke, John), 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	Show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Show	iobj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tell	cc
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 tell	nsubj
6	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Show	parataxis
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 way	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obl
12	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 curls	nsubj
13	curls	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 way	acl:relcl
14	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	21 path	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 path	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 path	cop
17	on	on	ADP	_	21 path	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 path	det
19	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 path	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 war	punct
21	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 curls	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Show	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Show	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	imperative	you not said here		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	future	I		you		by the way	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	curl	present	smoke	the way not said here				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
4	is	present	John			the war path		tree rules

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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