Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 183

He did not know that the crocodile was waiting for him; for we purposely stopped the clock that this knowledge might be spared him: a little mark of respect from us at the end.

Who acts: Peter, crocodile, we · What happens: not know, wait, stop, spare, mark · To what, where: clock, knowledge, respect, end · 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 (Peter, crocodile, we), 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	4 know	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 waiting	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crocodile	det
7	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 waiting	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 waiting	aux
9	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 know	ccomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 waiting	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 stopped	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 stopped	mark
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 stopped	nsubj
15	purposely	purposely	ADV	_	16 stopped	advmod
16	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 clock	det
18	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stopped	obj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 spared	mark
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 knowledge	det
21	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spared	nsubj:pass
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 spared	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 spared	aux:pass
24	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 stopped	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 spared	obj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 mark	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 mark	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 mark	amod
29	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 respect	case
31	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mark	nmod
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 us	case
33	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 respect	nmod
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 end	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 end	det
36	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mark	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	Peter				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	wait	past · progressive	the crocodile			for Peter	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stop	past	we	the clock		purposely property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector clock=Eventuality
4	spare	might · passive		this knowledge			vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Recipient he=Asset
5	mark			respect from us	at the end		nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient at=place

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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