Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 46
No nursery could possibly have been conducted more correctly, and Mr. Darling knew it, yet he sometimes wondered uneasily whether the neighbours talked.
Who acts: Darling, neighbours · What happens: conduct, know, wonder, talk · To what, where: nursery
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, neighbours), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 nursery | det |
| 2 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 conducted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 conducted | aux |
| 4 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 7 conducted | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 conducted | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 conducted | aux:pass |
| 7 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 correctly | advmod |
| 9 | correctly | correctly | ADV | _ | 7 conducted | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 knew | cc |
| 12 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Darling | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 knew | nsubj |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 conducted | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 knew | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wondered | punct |
| 17 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 20 wondered | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wondered | nsubj |
| 19 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 wondered | advmod |
| 20 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 knew | conj |
| 21 | uneasily | uneasily | ADV | _ | 20 wondered | advmod |
| 22 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 25 talked | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 neighbours | det |
| 24 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 talked | nsubj |
| 25 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wondered | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 conducted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conduct | could · perfect · passive | no nursery | correctly, possibly property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | past | Darling Mr. | nursery | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | Darling | sometimes, uneasily property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | talk | past | the neighbours | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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