Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 10
That this was the usual procedure was so well known to Hook that in disregarding it he cannot be excused on the plea of ignorance.
Who acts: this · What happens: be, know, hook, disregard, not excuse · To what, where: usual procedure, That, procedure, paleface, plea
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 known | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 procedure | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 procedure | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 procedure | det |
| 5 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 procedure | amod |
| 6 | procedure | procedure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 That | acl:relcl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 known | aux:pass |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 well | advmod |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 known | advmod |
| 10 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 Hook | mark |
| 12 | Hook | hook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 known | xcomp |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 disregarding | mark |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 15 disregarding | mark |
| 15 | disregarding | disregard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 Hook | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 disregarding | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 excused | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 excused | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 excused | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 excused | aux:pass |
| 21 | excused | excuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 disregarding | parataxis |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 plea | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 plea | det |
| 24 | plea | plea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 excused | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 ignorance | case |
| 26 | ignorance | ignorance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 plea | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | the usual procedure | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | past · passive | That | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hook | to-infinitive | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | disregard | gerund | procedure | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not excuse | can · passive | paleface | the plea of ignorance | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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