Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 154
He had taught the children something of the forest lore that he had himself learned from Tiger Lily and Tinker Bell, and knew that in their dire hour they were not likely to forget it.
Who acts: silence, children · What happens: teach, have, learn, know, not be, forget · To what, where: silence, lore · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (silence, children), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 taught | aux |
| 3 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 something | det |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 something | nsubj |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 taught | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 lore | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lore | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lore | compound |
| 10 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 something | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 had | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 something | advcl |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 had | obj |
| 15 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 had | xcomp |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Tiger | case |
| 17 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 learned | obl |
| 18 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Tiger | flat |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Tinker | cc |
| 20 | Tinker | Tinker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Tiger | conj |
| 21 | Bell | Bell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Tinker | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 knew | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 knew | cc |
| 24 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 taught | conj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 likely | mark |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 hour | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hour | nmod:poss |
| 28 | dire | dire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hour | amod |
| 29 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 likely | obl |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 likely | nsubj |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 likely | cop |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 likely | advmod |
| 33 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 knew | ccomp |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 forget | mark |
| 35 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 likely | xcomp |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 forget | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past · perfect · passive | silence | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient something=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | past | silence | silence | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | learn | participle | silence not said here | from Tiger and Tinker | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from tiger=Source | ||||
| 4 | know | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | not is | past | children = child | hour | likely property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | forget | to-infinitive | children = child not said here | lore | tree rules |
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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