Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 55
Had the bo’sun good form without knowing it, which is the best form of all?
What happens: have, know, be · To what, where: bo’sun good form, answer, best form
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: 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 | Had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 form | det |
| 3 | bo’sun | bo'sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 form | compound |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 form | amod |
| 5 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Had | obj |
| 6 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 7 knowing | mark |
| 7 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Had | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 knowing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 form | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 form | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 form | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 form | det |
| 13 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 form | amod |
| 14 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knowing | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 all | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 form | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the bo’sun good form | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient | |||||
| 2 | know | gerund | answer | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the best form | of all | 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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