Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 83

For long there was no answer: then again the knock.

Who acts: answer · What happens: be

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 (answer), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 long	case
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 was	obl
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 answer	det
6	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 knock	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 again	advmod
9	again	again	ADV	_	11 knock	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 knock	det
11	knock	knock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answer	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no answer and the knock			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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