Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 102

Now I understand what had hitherto puzzled me, why when Peter had exterminated the pirates he did not return to the island and leave Tink to escort the children to the mainland.

Who acts: I, Peter, Wendy, Tink · What happens: understand, puzzle, exterminate, not return, leave, escort · To what, where: me, pirates, Tink, children, mainland · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Peter, Wendy, Tink), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 understand	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 understand	nsubj
3	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 puzzled	obj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 puzzled	aux
6	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	_	7 puzzled	advmod
7	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 understand	ccomp
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 puzzled	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 exterminated	punct
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 exterminated	advmod
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 exterminated	advmod
12	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 exterminated	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 exterminated	aux
14	exterminated	exterminate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 understand	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pirates	det
16	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 exterminated	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 return	nsubj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 return	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 return	advmod
20	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 exterminated	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 island	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 island	det
23	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 return	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 leave	cc
25	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 return	conj
26	Tink	Tink	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 leave	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 escort	mark
28	escort	escort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 leave	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 children	det
30	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 escort	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 mainland	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 mainland	det
33	mainland	mainland	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 escort	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	present	I			now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	puzzle	past · perfect		me			hitherto property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus what=Experiencer i=Result
3	exterminate	past · perfect	Peter	the pirates				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pirate=Patient
4	not return	past · do-support	Wendy				to the island result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to island=Result
5	leave	infinitive	Wendy not said here	Tink				tree rules
6	escort	to-infinitive	Tink not said here	the children	the mainland			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to mainland=Destination

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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