Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 208
She knew it was useless to say that he had let many spring cleaning times pass.
Who acts: judgment, it, many cleaning times · What happens: know, be, say, let, pass · To what, where: Peter · 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 (judgment, it, many cleaning times), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 useless | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 useless | cop |
| 5 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 say | mark |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 useless | csubj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 let | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 let | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 let | aux |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 say | ccomp |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 times | amod |
| 13 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cleaning | compound |
| 14 | cleaning | cleaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 times | compound |
| 15 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pass | nsubj |
| 16 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 let | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | judgment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | it | useless property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | let | past · perfect · passive | Peter | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | pass | present | many cleaning times | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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