Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 78

He had no sense of time, and was so full of adventures that all I have told you about him is only a halfpenny-worth of them.

Who acts: Wendy · What happens: have, be, tell, sense · To what, where: sense, adventures, you, halfpenny worth, time · 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 (Wendy), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 sense	det
4	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 time	case
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sense	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 full	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 full	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 full	cop
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 full	advmod
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 worth	advcl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 adventures	case
13	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 full	obl
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 told	nsubj:pass
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 told	nsubj:pass
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 told	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 told	aux
18	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 adventures	acl:relcl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	about	about	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	obl
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 worth	cop
23	only	only	ADV	_	27 worth	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 worth	det
25	halfpenny	halfpenny	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 worth	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 halfpenny	punct
27	worth	worth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	parataxis
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 worth	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Wendy	no sense of time			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient
2	is	past				of adventures; full property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		adventures	you	about Wendy	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=Topic
4	is a	present		a halfpenny worth		of adventures = adventure	tree rules
5	sense			time			nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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