Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 13

He had ticked so long that he now went on ticking without knowing that he was doing it.

Who acts: human · What happens: tick, go, know, do · To what, where: thought · 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 (human), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ticked	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ticked	aux
3	ticked	tick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ticked	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 went	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 went	advmod
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 long	advcl
10	on	on	SCONJ	_	11 ticking	mark
11	ticking	tick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 went	advcl
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 knowing	mark
13	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 ticking	advcl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 doing	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 doing	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 doing	aux
17	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 knowing	ccomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 doing	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ticked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tick	past · perfect	human			long property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	go	past	human		now		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tick	gerund	human not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	know	gerund	human not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	past · progressive	human	thought			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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