Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 16

Slightly, white to the gills, knew that Hook had surprised his secret, which was this, that no boy so blown out could use a tree wherein an average man need stick.

Who acts: gills, Hook, secret, boy, average man · What happens: know, surprise, be, blow out, use, need · To what, where: this, boy, tree, stick · 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 (gills, Hook, secret, boy), 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	Slightly	slightly	ADV	_	3 white	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Slightly	punct
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 gills	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gills	det
6	gills	gill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 white	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 knew	punct
8	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gills	acl:relcl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 surprised	mark
10	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 surprised	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 surprised	aux
12	surprised	surprise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 knew	ccomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 secret	nmod:poss
14	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 this	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 this	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 this	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 this	cop
18	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 surprised	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 use	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 use	mark
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 boy	det
22	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 use	nsubj
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 blown	advmod
24	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 boy	acl
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 blown	compound:prt
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 use	aux
27	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 surprised	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 tree	det
29	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 use	obj
30	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	34 need	advmod
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 man	det
32	average	average	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 man	amod
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 need	nsubj
34	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 use	advcl
35	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 need	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 white	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	the gills not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	surprise	past · perfect	Hook			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	Hook's secret	this		tree rules
4	blow out	participle		no boy not said here		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	use	could	no boy	a tree		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
6	need	present	a average man	stick	wherein property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stick=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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