Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 5

I know not why he was so infinitely pathetic, unless it were because he was so pathetically unaware of it; but even strong men had to turn hastily from looking at him, and more than once on summer evenings he had touched the fount of Hook’s tears and made it flow.

Who acts: I, sound, whir, strong men, more · What happens: not know, be, have, turn, look, touch · To what, where: more, fount, whir

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 (I, sound, whir, strong men), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 know	advmod
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 pathetic	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pathetic	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pathetic	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 pathetic	advmod
8	infinitely	infinitely	ADV	_	9 pathetic	advmod
9	pathetic	pathetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 not	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 unaware	punct
11	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	19 unaware	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 unaware	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 unaware	cop
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 unaware	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 unaware	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 unaware	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 unaware	advmod
18	pathetically	pathetically	ADV	_	19 unaware	advmod
19	unaware	unaware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 know	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 unaware	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 men	cc
24	even	even	ADV	_	26 men	advmod
25	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 men	amod
26	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 know	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 turn	mark
29	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 had	xcomp
30	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	29 turn	advmod
31	from	from	SCONJ	_	32 looking	mark
32	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 turn	advcl
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 looking	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 more	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 more	cc
37	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 had	obj
38	than	than	ADP	_	39 once	case
39	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	37 more	obl
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 evenings	case
41	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 evenings	compound
42	evenings	evening	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 more	obl
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 touched	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 touched	aux
45	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 evenings	acl:relcl
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 fount	det
47	fount	fount	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 touched	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	51 tears	case
49	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 tears	nmod:poss
50	’s	's	PART	_	49 Hook	case
51	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 fount	nmod
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 made	cc
53	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 had	conj
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 made	obj
55	flow	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 made	xcomp
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not know	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	sound		infinitely, pathetic property	tree rules
3	is	past	whir		of machine; pathetically, unaware property	tree rules
4	have	past	strong men	more		tree rules
5	turn	to-infinitive	more not said here		hastily property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	look	gerund	more not said here		at sound	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
7	touch	past · perfect	sound	the fount of Hook's tears		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fount=Co-Theme
8	make	past	strong men not said here	whir		tree rules
9	flow	infinitive	whir not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «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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