Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 128

There should have been a fourth night-light.

Who acts: fourth night light · What happens: be

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 (fourth night light), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 been	expl
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 been	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 been	aux
4	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 light	det
6	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 light	amod
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 light	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 night	punct
9	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 been	nsubj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 been	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	should · perfect	a fourth night light			there			vn exist-47.1 «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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