Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 46
There was not a child on board the brig that night who did not already love him.
Who acts: child · What happens: not be, not love · To what, where: night
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 (child), 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 | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 brig | case |
| 7 | board | board | ADP | _ | 9 brig | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 brig | det |
| 9 | brig | brig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 child | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brig | appos |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 love | obj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 love | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 love | advmod |
| 15 | already | already | ADV | _ | 16 love | advmod |
| 16 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 night | acl:relcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 love | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | past | a child on the brig | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not love | past · do-support | that night | 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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