Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 182
And then, “Let us do what Peter would do.”
Who acts: you, us, Peter · What happens: let, do · To what, where: us · 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 (you, us, Peter), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Let | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 Let | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Let | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Let | punct |
| 5 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 Let | obj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Let | xcomp |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 do | obj |
| 9 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 do | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 do | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Let | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | us | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | would | Peter | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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