Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 137

If you or I or Wendy had been there we should have seen that he was very like Mrs. Darling’s kiss.

Who acts: you, we, dog · What happens: be, see

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 (you, we, dog), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	9 there	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 there	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 I	cc
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 you	conj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 Wendy	cc
6	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 you	conj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 there	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 there	cop
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 seen	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 seen	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 seen	aux
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 there	parataxis
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 kiss	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 kiss	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 kiss	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	22 kiss	advmod
18	like	like	ADP	_	22 kiss	case
19	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Darling	compound
20	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 kiss	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 Darling	case
22	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seen	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	you	there property	tree rules
2	see	should · perfect	we		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	dog	like Mrs. Darling's kiss	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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