Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 90

In time they could not even fly after their hats.

Who acts: boys · What happens: not fly

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	In	in	ADP	_	2 time	case
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fly	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fly	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fly	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 fly	advmod
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 fly	advmod
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 hats	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hats	nmod:poss
10	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fly	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fly	could	boys = boy				after boys's hats; time		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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