Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 91

It was not really Saturday night, at least it may have been, for they had long lost count of the days; but always if they wanted to do anything special they said this was Saturday night, and then they did it.

Who acts: clock, bones · What happens: not be, lose, be, want, do, say · To what, where: Saturday night, lost count, least, anything, clock · 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 (clock, bones), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 night	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 night	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 night	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	6 night	advmod
5	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 night	compound
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 count	punct
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 least	case
9	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 count	nmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 count	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 count	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 count	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 count	cop
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 count	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 lost	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lost	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lost	aux
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 lost	advmod
19	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 count	amod
20	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 night	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 days	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 days	det
23	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 count	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 wanted	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 wanted	cc
26	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	29 wanted	advmod
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 wanted	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wanted	nsubj
29	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 night	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	31 do	mark
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 wanted	xcomp
32	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	31 do	obj
33	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 anything	amod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 said	nsubj
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 anything	acl:relcl
36	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 night	det
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 night	cop
38	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 night	compound
39	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 said	obl:unmarked
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 did	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 did	cc
42	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 did	advmod
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 did	nsubj
44	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 wanted	conj
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 did	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 night	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	clock	Saturday night and lost count				tree rules
2	lose	past · perfect	bones = bone				long property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	may · perfect	clock	lost count	least	day		tree rules
4	want a condition, not said to happen	past	bones = bone				always property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	bones = bone not said here	anything				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
6	say speech: assert	past	bones = bone					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past		this Saturday night				tree rules
8	do	past	bones = bone	clock		then		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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