Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 148

“The dear old days when I could fly!”

Who acts: dear old days · What happens: fly

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 (dear old days), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 fly	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 days	det
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 days	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 days	amod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fly	nsubj
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 fly	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 fly	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fly	aux
9	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 fly	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly in a quote	could	the dear old days						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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