Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 161
“We’ve built the little walls and roof And made a lovely door, So tell us, mother Wendy, What are you wanting more?”
Who acts: you · What happens: build, make, tell, want · To what, where: We, lovely door, mother, us · 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 (you), 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 | _ | 4 built | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 built | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | aux:pass |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 walls | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 walls | amod |
| 7 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 built | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 roof | cc |
| 9 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walls | conj |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 13 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 door | amod |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tell | punct |
| 16 | So | so | ADV | _ | 17 tell | advmod |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 built | parataxis |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | iobj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mother | punct |
| 20 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tell | obj |
| 21 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 mother | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 wanting | punct |
| 23 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 wanting | obj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 wanting | aux |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 wanting | nsubj |
| 26 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 mother | conj |
| 27 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 wanting | obj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 27 more | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build in a quote | present · passive | We | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary wall=Product | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | past | a lovely door | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset door=Product | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | mother | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient mother=Topic | ||||
| 4 | want in a quote | present · progressive | you | mother | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme more=Attribute |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/7/161/