Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 110

There was not a porthole on the grimy glass of which you might not have written with your finger “Dirty pig”; and she had already written it on several.

Who acts: porthole, you · What happens: be, not write, write · To what, where: grimy glass, pig, several

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 (porthole, you), 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	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 porthole	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 porthole	det
5	porthole	porthole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 glass	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 glass	det
8	grimy	grimy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 glass	amod
9	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 written	obl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 written	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 written	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 written	advmod
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 written	aux
16	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 glass	acl:relcl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 finger	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 finger	nmod:poss
19	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 written	obl
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 pig	punct
21	Dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pig	amod
22	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 finger	appos
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 pig	punct
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 written	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 written	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 written	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 written	aux
28	already	already	ADV	_	29 written	advmod
29	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 was	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 written	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 several	case
32	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 written	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a porthole		the grimy glass; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on glass=Location
2	not write	might · perfect	you			of the grimy glass; with your finger	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	write	past · perfect	porthole	pig	several		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on several=Destination

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/110/