Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 73

“I do wish Peter would come back,” every one of them said nervously, though in height and still more in breadth they were all larger than their captain.

Who acts: Peter, one, boys · What happens: wish, come back, say, be · To what, where: height · 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 (Peter, one, boys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg16:786): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 wish	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 do	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wish	aux
4	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wish	ccomp
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wish	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 wish	punct
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 one	det
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 said	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 one	nmod
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	nervously	nervously	ADV	_	15 said	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 larger	punct
18	though	though	SCONJ	_	29 larger	mark
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 height	case
20	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 larger	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 breadth	cc
22	still	still	ADV	_	23 more	advmod
23	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 breadth	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 breadth	case
25	breadth	breadth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 height	conj
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 larger	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 larger	cop
28	all	all	ADV	_	29 larger	advmod
29	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 said	advcl
30	than	than	ADP	_	32 captain	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 captain	nmod:poss
32	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 larger	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	wish in a quote	present · do-support				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	come back in a quote	would	Peter			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	every one of boys		nervously property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is	past	boys = boy	height and breadth	than boys's captain; all, large property	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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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