Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 120

On the night we speak of all the children were once more in bed.

Who acts: we · What happens: speak, be · To what, where: bed · 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 (we), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 night	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speak	obl
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 speak	nsubj
5	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 children	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 children	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 speak	obl
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 more	cop
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 children	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 bed	case
14	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 more	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present	we				night	of all children	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	we not said here			bed		more, once property	tree rules

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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