Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 77

It must have been not less than ten o’clock by the crocodile, when he suddenly sat up in his bed, wakened by he knew not what.

Who acts: tenement, Peter · What happens: be, sit up, waken, not know · To what, where: ten o’clock, bed

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 (tenement, Peter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg16:1754): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 o’clock	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 o’clock	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 o’clock	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 o’clock	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 ten	advmod
6	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	8 ten	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	6 less	fixed
8	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 o’clock	nummod
9	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 crocodile	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 crocodile	det
12	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 o’clock	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sat	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 sat	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sat	nsubj
16	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	17 sat	advmod
17	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 o’clock	advcl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 sat	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 bed	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 bed	nmod:poss
21	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sat	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wakened	punct
23	wakened	waken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 sat	advcl
24	by	by	SCONJ	_	26 knew	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 knew	nsubj
26	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 wakened	advcl
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 knew	advmod
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 knew	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 o’clock	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	must · perfect	tenement	ten o’clock		by the crocodile	tree rules
2	sit up	past	Peter		Peter's bed	suddenly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
3	waken	participle	Peter not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	not know	past	Peter				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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