Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 139

Their ignorance gave them one more glad hour; and as it was to be their last hour on the island, let us rejoice that there were sixty glad minutes in it.

Who acts: ignorance, us, sixty glad minutes, redskins · What happens: give, be, let, rejoice, ignore · To what, where: redskins, island, us

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 (ignorance, us, sixty glad minutes, redskins), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 ignorance	nmod:poss
2	ignorance	ignorance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hour	nummod
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 hour	amod
7	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hour	amod
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl:unmarked
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 let	cc
11	as	as	ADP	_	18 hour	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hour	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hour	cop
14	to	to	PART	_	18 hour	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 hour	cop
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hour	nmod:poss
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hour	amod
18	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 let	obl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 island	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 island	det
21	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hour	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hour	punct
23	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
24	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 let	obj
25	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 let	xcomp
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 were	mark
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 were	expl
28	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 rejoice	advcl
29	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 minutes	nummod
30	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 minutes	amod
31	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 were	nsubj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 minutes	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	give	past	redskins's ignorance		redskins = redskin		hour	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	is	past	ignorance			the island	as redskins's last hour	tree rules
3	let	infinitive	redskins's ignorance not said here	us				tree rules
4	rejoice	infinitive	us not said here					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	be	past	sixty glad minutes in ignorance			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	ignore		redskins = redskin					nom ignorance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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