Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 111
Alas, Tinker Bell could not explain this, for even she did not know the dark secret of Slightly’s tree.
Who acts: Tinker Bell, Bell · What happens: not explain, not know · To what, where: this, dark secret
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tinker Bell, Bell), 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 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 7 explain | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alas | punct |
| 3 | Tinker | Tinker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Bell | compound |
| 4 | Bell | Bell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 explain | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 explain | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 explain | advmod |
| 7 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 explain | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 know | mark |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 know | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 know | advmod |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 explain | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 secret | det |
| 17 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 secret | amod |
| 18 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 know | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tree | case |
| 20 | Slightly | Slightly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 tree | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Slightly | case |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 secret | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 explain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not explain speech: assert | could | Tinker Bell | this | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | Bell | the dark secret of Slightly's tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus |
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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