Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 128
Some of them remembered that this had been a saying of Flint’s.
Who acts: Some, this · What happens: remember, be · To what, where: saying · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Some, this), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 remembered | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Some | nmod |
| 4 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 saying | mark |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 saying | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saying | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 saying | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 saying | det |
| 10 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remembered | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Flint | case |
| 12 | Flint | Flint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 saying | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Flint | case |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | Some | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past · perfect | this | Flint's saying | 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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