Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 17

We have now reached the evening that was to be known among them as the Night of Nights, because of its adventures and their upshot.

Who acts: We, squaw · What happens: reach, know, adventure · To what, where: evening

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 (We, squaw), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	aux
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 reached	advmod
4	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 evening	det
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obl:unmarked
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 known	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 known	aux:pass
9	to	to	PART	_	11 known	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 known	aux:pass
11	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 evening	acl:relcl
12	among	among	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 known	obl
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 Night	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Night	det
16	Night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 known	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Nights	case
18	Nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 Night	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 adventures	punct
20	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	23 adventures	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	20 because	fixed
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 adventures	nmod:poss
23	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reached	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 upshot	cc
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 upshot	nmod:poss
26	upshot	upshot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 adventures	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reach	present · perfect	We		now; evening	because squaw's adventures and redskins's upshot	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	know	past · passive	We not said here	the evening	night	among redskins = redskin	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
3	adventure		squaw				nom adventure «act 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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