Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 135
But she had been much tried, and she little knew what was to happen before the night was out.
Who acts: Fancy, night · What happens: be, know, happen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fancy, night), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 tried | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tried | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 tried | cop |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 tried | advmod |
| 6 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 knew | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 10 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 knew | advmod |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tried | parataxis |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 happen | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 happen | aux |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 happen | mark |
| 15 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 knew | ccomp |
| 16 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 out | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 night | det |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 out | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 out | cop |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 happen | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | Fancy | try property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | past | Fancy | little property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | the night | out 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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