Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 112

“John,” Michael proposed, “let us wake her and get her to make supper for us,” but as he said it some of the other boys rushed on carrying branches for the building of the house.

Who acts: John, us, Curly, Wendy, some · What happens: propose, let, wake, get, make, say · To what, where: us, Curly, supper, branches · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, us, Curly, Wendy), 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	_	6 proposed	punct
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 proposed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 John	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 John	punct
5	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 John	flat
6	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 proposed	ccomp
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wake	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 get	cc
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wake	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 get	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 make	mark
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 get	xcomp
18	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 us	case
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 make	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 proposed	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 proposed	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 said	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 proposed	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	obj
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 rushed	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 boys	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 boys	det
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 boys	amod
32	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 some	nmod
33	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 said	ccomp
34	on	on	SCONJ	_	35 carrying	mark
35	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 rushed	advcl
36	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 carrying	obj
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 building	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 building	det
39	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 carrying	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 house	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 house	det
42	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 building	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 proposed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	propose	past	John			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let in a quote	infinitive	John not said here	us		tree rules
3	wake in a quote	infinitive	us not said here	Curly		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient
4	get in a quote	infinitive	us not said here	Curly		tree rules
5	make in a quote	to-infinitive	Curly not said here	supper	for us	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent supper=Product for we=Beneficiary
6	say speech: assert	past	Wendy	supper		tree rules
7	rush	past	some			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	carry	gerund	some not said here	branches	for the building of the house	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme

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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