Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 110

Peter came next spring cleaning; and the strange thing was that he never knew he had missed a year.

Who acts: Peter, strange thing · What happens: come, not be, miss · To what, where: next spring cleaning · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, strange thing), 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	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cleaning	amod
4	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cleaning	compound
5	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 knew	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 knew	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 knew	nsubj:outer
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 knew	cop
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 knew	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 knew	nsubj
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 knew	advmod
15	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 missed	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 missed	aux
18	missed	miss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 knew	ccomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 year	det
20	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 missed	obl:unmarked
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Peter	next spring cleaning			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cleaning=Theme
2	not is	past	the strange thing			know property	tree rules
3	miss	past · perfect	Peter		year		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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