Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 1
Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.
Who acts: Odd things, our, things · What happens: happen, notice · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Odd things, our, things), 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 | Odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 things | amod |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 happen | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 all | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 way | nmod:poss |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happen | obl |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happen | obl |
| 13 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 noticing | mark |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 noticing | nsubj |
| 15 | noticing | notice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 happen | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 noticing | obl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 happened | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 happened | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 happened | aux |
| 22 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 noticing | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | Odd things | our way | to all; through life | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | |||
| 2 | notice | gerund | our | time | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | happen | present · perfect | things = thing | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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