Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 38

She had a genius for knowing when a cough is a thing to have no patience with and when it needs stocking around your throat.

Who acts: Nana, cough · What happens: have, know, be, need, stock · To what, where: genius, thing, patience, throat

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 (Nana, cough), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 genius	det
4	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 knowing	mark
6	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 had	advcl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 thing	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cough	det
9	cough	cough	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thing	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 thing	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 thing	det
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knowing	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 have	mark
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 thing	acl
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 patience	det
16	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	14 have	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 needs	cc
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 needs	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 needs	nsubj
21	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
22	stocking	stock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 needs	xcomp
23	around	around	ADP	_	25 throat	case
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 throat	nmod:poss
25	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stocking	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	Nana	a genius		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genius=Patient
2	know	gerund	Nana not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	present	a cough	a thing		tree rules
4	have	to-infinitive	Nana not said here	no patience		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient
5	need	present	cough			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	stock not said to happen	gerund	cough not said here		your throat	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent around throat=Location

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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