Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 74

So great indeed was their faith in a mother’s love that they felt they could afford to be callous for a bit longer.

Who acts: children, mother · What happens: be, feel, afford, love · To what, where: great faith, love

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, mother), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 great	advmod
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 faith	amod
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 great	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 faith	cop
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 faith	nmod:poss
6	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 love	case
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	6 faith	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 felt	obj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 felt	nsubj
14	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 love	acl:relcl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 afford	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 afford	aux
17	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 felt	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	20 callous	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 callous	cop
20	callous	callous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 afford	xcomp
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 bit	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bit	det
23	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 callous	obl
24	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 bit	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 faith	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		children's great faith	a mother's love		tree rules
2	feel	past	children = child	a mother's love			tree rules
3	afford	could	children = child				tree rules
4	is	to-infinitive	children = child not said here			for a bit; callous property	tree rules
5	love		a mother				nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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