Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 108

No words of mine can tell you how Wendy despised those pirates.

Who acts: words, Wendy · What happens: tell, despise, word · To what, where: you, pirates, mine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, Wendy), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 mine	case
4	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 words	nmod
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 despised	advmod
9	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 despised	nsubj
10	despised	despise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	ccomp
11	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 pirates	det
12	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 despised	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	no words of mine		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	despise	past	Wendy	that pirates		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pirate=Stimulus
3	word			mine		nom word «communication 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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