Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 138

“John,” Wendy said falteringly, “perhaps we don’t remember the old life as well as we thought we did.”

Who acts: John, we · What happens: say, not remember, think, do · To what, where: old life · 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 (John, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 John	punct
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 John	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 John	punct
5	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	falteringly	falteringly	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 remember	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 remember	punct
10	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	14 remember	advmod
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 remember	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 remember	aux
13	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 remember	advmod
14	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 life	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 life	amod
17	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 remember	obj
18	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	14 remember	advmod
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 as	fixed
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 thought	mark
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 thought	nsubj
22	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 remember	advcl
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 did	nsubj
24	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 thought	ccomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 remember	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	John		falteringly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not remember in a quote	present · do-support	we	the old life	perhaps property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent life=Theme
3	think speech: other in a quote	past	we			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	do in a quote	past	we			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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