Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 93

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can’t.

Who acts: boys, one, heart, mothers · What happens: know, call, get on, be, think · To what, where: hearts, mothers · 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 (boys, one, heart, mothers), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 what	case
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 knew	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 called	nsubj
6	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hearts	nmod:poss
8	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 called	obj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 get	mark
10	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 get	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 get	aux
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 called	advcl
13	on	on	ADV	_	12 get	advmod
14	quite	quite	ADV	_	15 well	advmod
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 get	advmod
16	without	without	ADP	_	18 mother	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 mother	det
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 mothers	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 mothers	cc
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 mothers	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 mothers	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 mothers	cop
24	only	only	ADV	_	26 mothers	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mothers	det
26	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knew	obl
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 think	nsubj
28	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 mothers	acl:relcl
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 ca	nsubj
30	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 think	ccomp
31	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 ca	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	boys = boy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	call	past	boys = boy	boys's hearts		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent heart=Recipient
3	get on	can	one		without a mother; well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	present	heart	the mothers		tree rules
5	think speech: other	present	the mothers			vn focus-87.1-1 «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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