--- title: “Won’t you play me to sleep,” he asked, “on the nursery piano?” and… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: “Won’t you play me to sleep,” he asked, “on the nursery piano?” and as she was crossing to the day-nursery he added thoughtlessly, “And shut that window. Who acts: you, man, corner. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/17/92/) [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 XVI. THE RETURN HOME](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/17/) / 92 # Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 92 “Won’t you play me to sleep,” he asked, “on the nursery piano?” and as she was crossing to the day-nursery he added thoughtlessly, “And shut that window. **Who acts:** you, man, corner · **What happens:** not play, sleep, ask, cross, add, shut · **To what, where:** man, day nursery, window · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man, corner), 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:pg16:17:92 # text = “Won’t you play me to sleep,” he asked, “on the nursery piano?” and as she was crossing to the day-nursery he added thoughtlessly, “And shut that window. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Wo wo INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 “ " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 nursery nursery NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 piano piano NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ” " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 crossing cross VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 nursery nursery NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 added add VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 thoughtlessly thoughtlessly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 “ " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 And and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 shut shut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 38 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 39 det _ _ 39 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **play** *in a quote* | present | you | man | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 2 | **sleep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | man | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **cross** | past · progressive | corner | | | the day nursery | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to nursery=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | man | the day nursery *not said here* | | | | thoughtlessly *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nursery=Patient | | 6 | **shut** *in a quote* | past | man *not said here* | that window | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent window=Patient | 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 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/17/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/17/93/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/17/)