Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 118

“Captain,” said Smee, “could we not kidnap these boys’ mother and make her our mother?”

Who acts: Captain, we · What happens: say, not kidnap, make · To what, where: mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Captain, we), 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 Captain	punct
2	Captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Captain	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Captain	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kidnap	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 kidnap	punct
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 kidnap	aux
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 kidnap	nsubj
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 kidnap	advmod
12	kidnap	kidnap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
13	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 boys	det
14	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 mother	nmod:poss
15	’	's	PART	_	14 boys	case
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kidnap	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 make	cc
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 kidnap	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 make	obj
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mother	nmod:poss
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	obj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	Captain			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not kidnap in a quote	could	we	this boys's mother		vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme
3	make in a quote	infinitive	we not said here		mother	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary mother=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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