Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 14

Had he known he would have stopped, for to board the brig by help of the tick, though an ingenious idea, had not occurred to him.

Who acts: human · What happens: know, stop, board, not occur, help · To what, where: brig, ingenious idea, human, tick · 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	Had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 known	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 known	nsubj
3	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stopped	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 stopped	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 stopped	aux
7	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 known	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 board	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 board	case
10	to	to	PART	_	11 board	mark
11	board	board	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 known	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 brig	det
13	brig	brig	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 board	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 help	case
15	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 board	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 tick	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tick	det
18	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 help	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 occurred	punct
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	27 occurred	mark
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 idea	det
22	ingenious	ingenious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 idea	amod
23	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 occurred	nsubj:pass
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 idea	punct
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 occurred	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 occurred	advmod
27	occurred	occur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 known	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 occurred	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	past · perfect	human				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	stop	would · perfect	human				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	board	to-infinitive	human not said here	the brig		by help of the tick	vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme brig=Location
4	not occur	past · perfect · passive		a ingenious idea	human		tree rules
5	help			the tick			nom help «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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