Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 42

“Peter,” he said quietly, “I will show her to you,” and when the others would still have hidden her he said, “Back, twins, let Peter see.”

Who acts: Peter · What happens: say, show, hide, let, see · To what, where: voice, others, twins, Peter · 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 (Peter), 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	_	2 Peter	punct
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Peter	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Peter	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 show	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 show	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 show	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 show	aux
12	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 show	iobj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 show	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 show	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 show	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 hidden	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 others	det
21	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hidden	nsubj:pass
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 hidden	aux
23	still	still	ADV	_	25 hidden	advmod
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 hidden	aux
25	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 said	ccomp
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hidden	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 said	nsubj
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Back	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 Back	punct
31	Back	back	ADV	_	28 said	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 twins	punct
33	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 said	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 let	punct
35	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 said	ccomp
36	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 let	obj
37	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 let	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 let	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	35 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Peter				quietly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	show in a quote	future	Peter		voice		to you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Topic to you=Recipient
3	hide	would · perfect · passive		the others		still		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	Peter	twins				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	let in a quote	infinitive		Peter				tree rules
6	see in a quote	infinitive	Peter not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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