Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 204

Now surely he would understand; but not a bit of it.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: understand

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), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 understand	advmod
2	surely	surely	ADV	_	5 understand	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 understand	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 understand	aux
5	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 it	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 it	cc
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 bit	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bit	det
10	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 it	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 understand	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	would	Peter				now	of bit; surely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus

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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