Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 69

John had no friends, Michael had friends at night, Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents, but on the whole the Neverlands have a family resemblance, and if they stood still in a row you could say of them that they have each other’s nose, and so forth.

Who acts: John, Michael, Wendy, Neverlands, you · What happens: have, forsake, stand, say · To what, where: friends, pet wolf, family resemblance, row, other nose · 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 (John, Michael, Wendy, Neverlands), 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	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 friends	det
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
6	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
8	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wolf	det
15	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wolf	compound
16	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
17	forsaken	forsake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 wolf	acl
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 parents	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 parents	nmod:poss
20	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 forsaken	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 whole	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 whole	cc
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 whole	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 whole	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Neverlands	det
27	Neverlands	Neverland	PROPN	Number=Plur	28 have	nsubj
28	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 whole	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 resemblance	det
30	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 resemblance	compound
31	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 say	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 say	cc
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 stood	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 stood	nsubj
36	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 say	advcl
37	still	still	ADV	_	36 stood	advmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 row	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 row	det
40	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stood	obl
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 say	nsubj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 say	aux
43	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	parataxis
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 say	obl
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 have	mark
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 have	nsubj
48	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 say	advcl
49	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	52 nose	det
50	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 nose	amod
51	’s	's	PART	_	50 other	case
52	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 have	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 forth	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 forth	cc
55	so	so	ADV	_	56 forth	advmod
56	forth	forth	ADV	_	48 have	conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	John	no friends				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient
2	have	past	Michael	friends		night		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient
3	have	past	Wendy	a pet wolf				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient
4	forsake	participle		a pet wolf not said here			by wolf's parents	tree rules
5	have	present	the Neverlands	a family resemblance				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resemblance=Patient
6	stand a condition, not said to happen	past	John		a row	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location
7	say speech: assert	could	you				of John	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	have	present	John	each other nose				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient

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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