Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 2

Thus, to take an instance, we suddenly discover that we have been deaf in one ear for we don’t know how long, but, say, half an hour.

Who acts: we · What happens: take, discover, be, not know, say · To what, where: instance, one ear · 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 (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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	4 take	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thus	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 take	mark
4	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 instance	det
6	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 discover	punct
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 discover	nsubj
9	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	10 discover	advmod
10	discover	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 take	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 deaf	mark
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 deaf	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 deaf	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 deaf	cop
15	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 discover	ccomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 ear	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 ear	nummod
18	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 deaf	obl
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 know	mark
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 know	nsubj
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 know	aux
22	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 know	advmod
23	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 discover	advcl
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 long	advmod
25	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 know	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 say	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 say	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 but	punct
29	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 take	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hour	punct
31	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	33 hour	det:predet
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 hour	det
33	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 say	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	to-infinitive		a instance			thus property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instance=Theme
2	discover	present	we				suddenly property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	is	present · perfect	we		one ear		deaf property	tree rules
4	not know	present · do-support	we				long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	say speech: assert	infinitive				hour		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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