Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 78

Or we might tell how Peter saved Tiger Lily’s life in the Mermaids’ Lagoon, and so made her his ally.

Who acts: we, Peter · What happens: tell, save, make · To what, where: life, Lagoon, ally, Peter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, 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	Or	or	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 saved	advmod
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 saved	nsubj
7	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	ccomp
8	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 life	nmod:poss
9	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Tiger	flat
10	’s	's	PART	_	8 Tiger	case
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saved	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 Lagoon	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Mermaids	det
14	Mermaids	Mermaid	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 Lagoon	nmod:poss
15	’	's	PART	_	14 Mermaids	case
16	Lagoon	Lagoon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 saved	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 made	cc
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 made	advmod
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	ccomp
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 made	obj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 ally	nmod:poss
23	ally	ally	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 made	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	might	we				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	save	past	Peter	Tiger's life		the Mermaids's Lagoon	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
3	make	past		Lagoon's ally	Peter		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary ally=Product

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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