Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 13
Well, not only could they not understand each other, but they forgot their manners.
Who acts: people · What happens: not understand, forget · To what, where: each, manners
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 understand | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 could | advmod |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 could | advmod |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 understand | aux |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 understand | nsubj |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 understand | advmod |
| 8 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 8 understand | obj |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 each | fixed |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forgot | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 forgot | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 forgot | nsubj |
| 14 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 understand | conj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 manners | nmod:poss |
| 16 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 forgot | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not understand | could | people | each | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | people | people's manners | tree rules |
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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