--- title: “John,” Michael proposed, “let us wake her and get her to make suppe… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: “John,” Michael proposed, “let us wake her and get her to make supper for us,” but as he said it some of the other boys rushed on carrying branches for the building of the house. Who acts: John, us, Curly, Wendy. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/7/112/) [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 VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/7/) / 112 # Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 112 “John,” Michael proposed, “let us wake her and get her to make supper for us,” but as he said it some of the other boys rushed on carrying branches for the building of the house. **Who acts:** John, us, Curly, Wendy, some · **What happens:** propose, let, wake, get, make, say · **To what, where:** us, Curly, supper, branches · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, us, Curly, Wendy), 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:pg16:7:112 # text = “John,” Michael proposed, “let us wake her and get her to make supper for us,” but as he said it some of the other boys rushed on carrying branches for the building of the house. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 Michael Michael PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 6 proposed propose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 “ " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 10 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 wake wake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 15 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 18 supper supper NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 33 nsubj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 33 rushed rush VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 34 on on SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 36 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **propose** | past | John | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | John *not said here* | us | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **wake** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | Curly | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 4 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | Curly | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Curly *not said here* | supper | | | | for us | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent supper=Product for we=Beneficiary | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Wendy | supper | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **rush** | past | some | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **carry** | gerund | some *not said here* | branches | | | | for the building of the house | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme | 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 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/7/111/) - next →: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/7/113/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/7/)