Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 89

Still it is best to be careful; and no one knows so quickly as a child when he should give in.

Who acts: best, one, window · What happens: be, know, give in · 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 (best, one, window), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	4 best	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 best	expl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 best	cop
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 careful	nsubj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 careful	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 careful	cop
7	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 knows	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 knows	cc
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knows	nsubj
12	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 careful	conj
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 quickly	advmod
14	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	12 knows	advmod
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 child	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 child	det
17	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knows	obl
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 give	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 give	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 give	aux
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 knows	ccomp
22	in	in	ADP	_	21 give	compound:prt
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 careful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present		still	good property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	best		careful property	tree rules
3	know	present	no one		as a child; quickly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	give in	should	window			vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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