Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 65

Never, probably, had this simple man admired Hook so much.

What happens: not have, admire · To what, where: simple man

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: 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Never	punct
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 man	det
7	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
9	admired	admire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 Hook	amod
10	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	conj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	past		this simple man and admired Hook				probably property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
2	admire	participle							vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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