Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 6
They ought to have looked at Mr. Darling also, but they forgot about him.
Who acts: boys · What happens: look, forget
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 (boys), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | aux |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 looked | mark |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 looked | aux |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 Darling | case |
| 7 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Darling | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 looked | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 forgot | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 forgot | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 forgot | nsubj |
| 13 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 forgot | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | ought · perfect | boys = boy | at Darling Mr. | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at darling=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | boys = boy | about Mr. | 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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