Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 47

Every boy had adventures to tell; but perhaps the biggest adventure of all was that they were several hours late for bed.

Who acts: boy, biggest adventure · What happens: have, tell, be · To what, where: adventures · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boy, biggest adventure), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 adventures	acl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 bed	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 bed	cc
9	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	12 adventure	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 adventure	det
11	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 adventure	amod
12	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bed	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 adventure	nmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 bed	cop
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 bed	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bed	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 bed	cop
19	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hours	amod
20	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bed	nsubj
21	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 bed	advmod
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 bed	case
23	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	every boy	adventures		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	every boy not said here	adventures not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the biggest adventure of all		for bed; late property	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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