Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 146

Thus children are ever ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.

Who acts: children, novelty · What happens: be, knock, desert · To what, where: dearest ones

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, novelty), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	2 children	advmod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ready	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ready	cop
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 ready	advmod
5	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knocks	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 knocks	mark
8	novelty	novelty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knocks	nsubj
9	knocks	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ready	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 desert	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	12 desert	mark
12	desert	desert	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 knocks	parataxis
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 ones	nmod:poss
14	dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 ones	amod
15	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 desert	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	children		ever	ready property	tree rules
2	knock	present	novelty				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	desert	to-infinitive		Nibs's dearest ones			vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme one=Source

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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