Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 36
“He didn’t even know how a father does till I showed him.”
Who acts: Father · What happens: not know, do, show · To what, where: Father · 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), 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 | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 know | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 does | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 father | det |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 does | nsubj |
| 10 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | ccomp |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 showed | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 showed | nsubj |
| 13 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 does | ccomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 showed | iobj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | past · do-support | Father | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | a father | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | show in a quote | past | our father = father | Father | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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