Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 13
He never knew about the box, and in time he gave up trying for the kiss.
Who acts: one more · What happens: not know, give up, try
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 (one more), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 knew | advmod |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 box | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 box | det |
| 6 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 gave | compound:prt |
| 14 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 gave | xcomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 kiss | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 kiss | det |
| 17 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trying | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past | one more = more | about the box | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about box=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | give up | past | one more = more | time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | try | gerund | one more = more not said here | for the kiss | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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