Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 75
All children know this about mothers, and despise them for it, but make constant use of it.
Who acts: children · What happens: know, despise, make, use · To what, where: this, mothers, constant use, buffer
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 (children), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 know | obj |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 mothers | case |
| 6 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 know | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 despise | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 despise | cc |
| 9 | despise | despise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | parataxis |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 despise | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 despise | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 make | cc |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 despise | conj |
| 16 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 use | amod |
| 17 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 use | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | all children | this | about mothers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | despise | infinitive | mothers = mother | for buffer | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus for it=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | constant use of buffer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product | |||||
| 4 | use | buffer | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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