Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 44

Sometimes, though not often, he had dreams, and they were more painful than the dreams of other boys.

Who acts: Peter, dreams · What happens: have, be, dream · To what, where: dreams, other boys

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 (Peter, dreams), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sometimes	punct
3	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 often	mark
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 often	advmod
5	often	often	ADV	_	8 had	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 often	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 painful	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 painful	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 painful	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 painful	cop
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 painful	advmod
15	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 had	conj
16	than	than	ADP	_	18 dreams	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dreams	det
18	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 painful	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 boys	case
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 boys	amod
21	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 dreams	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Peter	dreams	sometimes property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient
2	is	past	dreams = dream		than the dreams of other boys; painful property	tree rules
3	dream			other boys		nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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