Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 77

“All I remember about my mother,” Nibs told them, “is that she often said to my father, ‘Oh, how I wish I had a cheque-book of my own!’

Who acts: Nibs, tone · What happens: remember, tell, be, wish, have · To what, where: mothers, cheque book · 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 (Nibs, tone), 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	_	11 told	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 Nibs	det
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 remember	nsubj
4	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 All	acl:relcl
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 mother	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remember	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 remember	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 All	punct
10	Nibs	nib	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 said	cop
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 said	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
18	often	often	ADV	_	19 said	advmod
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 father	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 father	nmod:poss
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wish	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 father	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 wish	punct
25	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	29 wish	discourse
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wish	punct
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 wish	advmod
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 wish	nsubj
29	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 said	ccomp
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 wish	ccomp
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 book	det
33	cheque	cheque	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 book	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 cheque	punct
35	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 own	case
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 own	nmod:poss
38	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 book	nmod
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	remember in a quote	present	all Nibs = nib			about my mother	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	all Nibs		mothers = mother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	be speech: assert in a quote	present	tone			often, say property	tree rules
4	wish in a quote	present	all Nibs = nib			to my father	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	have in a quote	past	all Nibs = nib	a cheque book of my own			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient

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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