Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 159
Now, if Peter had ever quite had a mother, he no longer missed her.
Who acts: Peter, departure · What happens: have, miss · To what, where: mother
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 (Peter, departure), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 missed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 had | mark |
| 4 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 missed | advcl |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 had | advmod |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 had | advmod |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mother | det |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 missed | nsubj |
| 13 | no | no | ADV | _ | 14 longer | advmod |
| 14 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 missed | advmod |
| 15 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 missed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 missed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | Peter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | Peter not said here | a mother | ever | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient | |||
| 3 | miss | past | departure | mother | now | long property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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