Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 20

“When ladies used to come to me in dreams, I said, ‘Pretty mother, pretty mother.’

Who acts: ladies, dignity · What happens: use, come, say · To what, where: dignity, dreams · 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 (ladies, dignity), 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	_	13 said	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 used	advmod
3	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 come	mark
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 come	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 dreams	case
10	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mother	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 mother	punct
16	Pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mother	amod
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mother	punct
19	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mother	amod
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mother	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	use in a quote	past	ladies			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	come in a quote	to-infinitive	ladies not said here	dignity	dreams	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	dignity			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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