Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 52

“If you knew how great is a mother’s love,” Wendy told them triumphantly, “you would have no fear.”

Who acts: feelings, Wendy · What happens: know, be, tell, have · To what, where: love, feelings, fear · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (feelings, Wendy), 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	_	4 knew	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 knew	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 love	csubj
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 great	advmod
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knew	xcomp
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 love	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mother	det
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 love	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 mother	case
11	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 love	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 love	punct
14	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	triumphantly	triumphantly	ADV	_	15 told	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 told	ccomp
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 fear	det
24	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	feelings = feeling			great property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a in a quote	present		a mother's love			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	Wendy		feelings = feeling	triumphantly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	have in a quote	would	feelings = feeling	no fear			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient

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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