Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 166
He had had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred.
Who acts: Nana, other children · What happens: have, not know, look, bar · To what, where: ecstasies, Nana, one joy
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 (Nana, other children), 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 | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | aux |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | ecstasies | ecstasy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | innumerable | innumerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ecstasies | amod |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 know | mark |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 children | amod |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 know | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 know | advmod |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 innumerable | advcl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 looking | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 looking | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looking | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 looking | aux |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 had | conj |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 window | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 window | det |
| 19 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looking | obl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 joy | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 joy | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 joy | compound |
| 23 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looking | obl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 barred | obl |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 barred | nsubj |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 barred | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 barred | aux:pass |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 barred | mark |
| 30 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 31 barred | advmod |
| 31 | barred | bar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 joy | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past · perfect | Nana | ecstasies | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ecstasy=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not know | can | other children | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | look | past · progressive | Nana | at the one joy; through the window | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bar | must · passive | Nana | the one joy | ever | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from which=Eventuality |
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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