Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 25

It would be the moral lesson they have been in need of ever since we met them; but if we contrived things in this way Mrs. Darling would never forgive us.

Who acts: hurry, beds, we · What happens: be, have, meet, contrive, not forgive · To what, where: moral lesson, beds, things, way, us

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 (hurry, beds, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lesson	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lesson	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 lesson	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lesson	det
5	moral	moral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lesson	amod
6	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lesson	parataxis
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 have	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 need	case
11	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 been	obl
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 met	mark
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 met	advmod
14	since	since	SCONJ	_	16 met	mark
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 met	nsubj
16	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 need	acl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 met	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 forgive	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 forgive	cc
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 contrived	mark
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 contrived	nsubj
22	contrived	contrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 forgive	advcl
23	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 contrived	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 way	case
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 way	det
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 contrived	obl
27	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 way	appos
28	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Mrs.	flat
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 forgive	aux
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 forgive	advmod
31	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lesson	conj
32	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 forgive	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lesson	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	would	hurry	the moral lesson			tree rules
2	have	present	beds = bed				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	meet	past	we	beds = bed		ever	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
4	contrive a condition, not said to happen	past	we	things	this way		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Result
5	not forgive	would	hurry not said here	us			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme

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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