Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 91

Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.

Who acts: you, boys, practice · What happens: want, call, mean, believe · To what, where: practice · 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 (you, boys, practice), 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	Want	want	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 practice	case
3	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Want	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 called	nsubj
6	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Want	parataxis
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 called	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 believed	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 believed	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 believed	nsubj:pass
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 meant	nsubj
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 meant	advmod
13	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 what	acl:relcl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 believed	aux:pass
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 believed	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 believed	nsubj:pass
17	no	no	ADV	_	18 longer	advmod
18	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 believed	advmod
19	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Want	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	imperative	you not said here		of practice	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	call	past	boys = boy	practice		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
3	mean	past	practice			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	believe	past · passive			long property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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