Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 82

Oh dear no, never wanted to pinch her so much.

What happens: not want, pinch · To what, where: note

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: 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	2 dear	discourse
2	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 dear	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wanted	punct
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 wanted	advmod
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dear	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 pinch	mark
8	pinch	pinch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wanted	xcomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pinch	obj
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADV	_	8 pinch	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past							vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	pinch not said to happen	to-infinitive		note					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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