Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 33
There was no way of knowing, save by going down.
Who acts: way · What happens: be, know, save, go down
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 (way), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 knowing | case |
| 6 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 way | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 save | punct |
| 8 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 knowing | xcomp |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 going | mark |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 save | advcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 going | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no way | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | gerund | no way not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | save | infinitive | no way not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go down | gerund | no way not said here | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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