Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 17

Of course no one really knows, but he quite seemed to know, and he often said stocks were up and shares were down in a way that would have made any woman respect him.

Who acts: Darling, stocks, way · What happens: know, seem, say, be up, share, be · To what, where: stocks, way, Darling · 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 (Darling, stocks, way), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	4 one	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knows	obl
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 knows	advmod
6	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seemed	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 seemed	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seemed	nsubj
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 seemed	advmod
11	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knows	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 know	mark
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 seemed	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
17	often	often	ADV	_	18 said	advmod
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knows	parataxis
19	stocks	stock	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 said	obj
20	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 stocks	acl
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 were	compound:prt
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 shares	cc
23	shares	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 knows	conj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 down	cop
25	down	down	ADV	_	23 shares	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 way	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 way	det
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shares	obl
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 made	obl
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 made	aux
31	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 made	aux
32	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 way	acl:relcl
33	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	34 woman	det
34	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 made	obj
35	respect	respect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 made	xcomp
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 respect	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present				of no one	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	seem	past	Darling				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	know	to-infinitive	Darling not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past	Darling	stocks		often property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stock=Topic
5	be up	past	stocks not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	share	present			a way		tree rules
7	is	past				down property	tree rules
8	make	would · perfect		a way			tree rules
9	respect	infinitive	a way not said here	Darling			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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