Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 15

“Father knows best,” she always said, whatever her private opinion must be.

Who acts: Father, Peter · What happens: know, say, opine · To what, where: whatever · 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 (Father, Peter), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct
2	Father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knows	nsubj
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 knows	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 said	advmod
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knows	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 whatever	punct
11	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 said	obj
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 opinion	nmod:poss
13	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 opinion	amod
14	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 be	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 be	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 whatever	acl:relcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	Father		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Peter	whatever	always property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent whatever=Topic
3	opine		Peter			nom opinion «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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