Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 88

It is sad to have to say that the power to fly gradually left them.

Who acts: It, power · What happens: be, have, say, fly, leave · To what, where: boys · 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 (It, power), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sad	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sad	cop
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 have	mark
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sad	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	xcomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 left	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 power	det
10	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 left	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 fly	mark
12	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 power	acl
13	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	12 fly	advmod
14	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 left	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		sad property	tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	fly	to-infinitive	the power not said here		gradually property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	leave	past	the power	boys = boy		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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