Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 119

“Ay,” the captain answered, “if I was a mother I would pray to have my children born with this instead of that,” and he cast a look of pride upon his iron hand and one of scorn upon the other.

Who acts: captain · What happens: answer, be, pray, have, bear, cast · To what, where: mother, children, look, iron hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain), 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	_	7 answered	punct
2	Ay	ay	INTJ	_	7 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ay	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ay	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 captain	det
6	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	nsubj
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pray	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 pray	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 mother	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 mother	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 mother	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mother	det
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pray	advcl
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 pray	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 pray	aux
17	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 answered	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 have	mark
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 pray	xcomp
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 children	nmod:poss
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 have	obj
22	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 children	acl
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 this	case
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 born	obl
25	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	27 that	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	25 instead	fixed
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 have	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 cast	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cast	nsubj
32	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 answered	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 look	det
34	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cast	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 pride	case
36	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 look	nmod
37	upon	upon	ADP	_	40 hand	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 hand	nmod:poss
39	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 hand	amod
40	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cast	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 scorn	cc
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 scorn	nummod
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 scorn	case
44	scorn	scorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 hand	conj
45	upon	upon	ADP	_	47 other	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 other	det
47	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 scorn	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the captain				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	the captain = captain	a mother			tree rules
3	pray in a quote	would	the captain = captain				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	have in a quote	to-infinitive	the captain = captain not said here	my children		instead that	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
5	bear in a quote	participle		my children not said here		with this	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	cast	past	captain	a look of pride	captain's iron hand and one scorn upon the other		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent look=Theme upon hand=Destination

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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