--- title: “Let us now,” said Wendy, bracing herself up for her finest effort,… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: “Let us now,” said Wendy, bracing herself up for her finest effort, “take a peep into the future;” and they all gave themselves the twist that makes peeps into the future easier. Who acts: Wendy, children, twist. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, with its dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/59/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / [Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/) / 59 # Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 59 “Let us now,” said Wendy, bracing herself up for her finest effort, “take a peep into the future;” and they all gave themselves the twist that makes peeps into the future easier. **Who acts:** Wendy, children, twist · **What happens:** let, say, brace up, take, give, make · **To what, where:** us, Wendy, peep, future, children, peeps · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wendy, children, twist), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg16:12:59 # text = “Let us now,” said Wendy, bracing herself up for her finest effort, “take a peep into the future;” and they all gave themselves the twist that makes peeps into the future easier. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 3 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Wendy Wendy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 bracing brace VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 11 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 10 obj _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 finest fine ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 amod _ _ 16 effort effort NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 “ " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 peep peep NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 future future NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ” " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 30 advmod _ _ 30 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 31 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 30 obj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 twist twist NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 peeps peep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 37 into into ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 future future NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 35 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | us | | | now | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Wendy | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **brace up** | gerund | Wendy *not said here* | Wendy | | | | for Wendy's finest effort | tree rules | | 4 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a peep | | the future | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent peep=Theme into future=Destination | | 5 | **give** | past | children *= child* | children *= child* | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient twist=Theme | | 6 | **make** | present | the twist | peeps | | the future | | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent peep=Material into future=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. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/60/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/)