Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 124

The bearded man who doesn’t know any story to tell his children was once John.

Who acts: bearded man · What happens: not know, tell, be · To what, where: story, children, John · 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 (bearded man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	bearded	bearded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 John	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 know	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 know	aux
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 know	advmod
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 man	acl:relcl
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 story	det
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 know	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 tell	mark
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 story	acl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 children	nmod:poss
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tell	obj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 John	cop
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 John	advmod
16	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 John	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	the bearded man	any story			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the bearded man not said here	any story not said here	man's children		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient
3	is a	past	the bearded man	John		once property	tree rules

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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