Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 71

We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.

Who acts: We · What happens: be, hear, land · To what, where: sound, more

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 (We), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 there	nsubj
2	too	too	ADV	_	5 there	advmod
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 there	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 there	cop
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 hear	punct
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 hear	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hear	aux
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 hear	advmod
10	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 there	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sound	det
12	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hear	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 surf	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 surf	det
15	surf	surf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sound	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 land	punct
17	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 land	mark
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 land	nsubj
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 land	aux
20	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hear	conj
21	no	no	ADV	_	22 more	advmod
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 land	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	We			there property	tree rules
2	hear	can	we	the sound of the surf	still		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
3	land	shall	we	more			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Theme

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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