Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 128

This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.

What happens: not write · To what, where: This, ink

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: 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 written	nsubj:pass
2	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 written	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 written	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	6 written	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 written	aux:pass
6	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 ink	case
8	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 written	obl
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 splash	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 splash	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 splash	det
12	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 splash	amod
13	splash	splash	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ink	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 written	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not write	ought · passive		This		ink but a golden splash			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in ink=Destination

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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