--- title: “Ay,” the captain answered, “if I was a mother I would pray to have… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: “Ay,” the captain answered, “if I was a mother I would pray to have my children born with this instead of that,” and he cast a look of pride upon his iron hand and one of scorn upon the other. Who acts: captain. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/119/) [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 V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/) / 119 # Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 119 “Ay,” the captain answered, “if I was a mother I would pray to have my children born with this instead of that,” and he cast a look of pride upon his iron hand and one of scorn upon the other. **Who acts:** captain · **What happens:** answer, be, pray, have, bear, cast · **To what, where:** mother, children, look, iron hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain), 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:pg16:6:119 # text = “Ay,” the captain answered, “if I was a mother I would pray to have my children born with this instead of that,” and he cast a look of pride upon his iron hand and one of scorn upon the other. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Ay ay INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 9 “ " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 if if SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 advcl _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 pray pray VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 obl _ _ 25 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 27 case _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 25 fixed _ _ 27 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ” " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 cast cast VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 upon upon ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 iron iron ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 nummod _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 scorn scorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 45 upon upon ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the captain | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | the captain *= captain* | a mother | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **pray** *in a quote* | would | the captain *= captain* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the captain *= captain* *not said here* | my children | | | | instead that | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | | 5 | **bear** *in a quote* | participle | | my children *not said here* | | | | with this | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **cast** | past | captain | a look of pride | | captain's iron hand and one scorn upon the other | | | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent look=Theme upon hand=Destination | 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 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/118/) - next →: [sentence 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/120/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/)