Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 119

But Wendy had not been dreaming, as the very next night showed, the night on which the extraordinary adventures of these children may be said to have begun.

Who acts: Wendy, next night · What happens: not dream, show, say, begin, adventure · To what, where: extraordinary adventures, children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wendy, next night), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg16:153): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 dreaming	cc
2	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dreaming	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dreaming	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 dreaming	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 dreaming	aux
6	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 showed	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 showed	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 night	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 next	advmod
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 night	amod
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 showed	nsubj
13	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dreaming	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 night	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 night	det
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 night	appos
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 said	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 adventures	det
20	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 adventures	amod
21	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 said	nsubj:pass
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 children	case
23	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	24 children	det
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 adventures	nmod
25	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 said	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	aux:pass
27	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 night	acl:relcl
28	to	to	PART	_	30 begun	mark
29	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 begun	aux
30	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 said	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dreaming	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not dream	past · perfect · progressive	Wendy			vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	show	past	the next night			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	may · passive		the extraordinary adventures of this children	on the night	tree rules
4	begin	to-infinitive · perfect				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	adventure			this children		nom adventure «act 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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