Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 24

However much he may have degenerated, he still knew that this is all that really matters.

Who acts: Hook, this · What happens: degenerate, know, be

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 (Hook, this), 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	However	however	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADV	_	6 degenerated	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 degenerated	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 degenerated	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 degenerated	aux
6	degenerated	degenerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 degenerated	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knew	nsubj
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 knew	advmod
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 degenerated	parataxis
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 matters	mark
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 matters	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 matters	cop
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 matters	det:predet
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 matters	nsubj
16	really	really	ADV	_	17 matters	advmod
17	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 knew	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 degenerated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	degenerate	may · perfect	Hook			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	know	past	Hook	still		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	this		matter property	tree rules

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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