Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 76

She knew of no Peter, and yet he was here and there in John and Michael’s minds, while Wendy’s began to be scrawled all over with him.

Who acts: pond, Peter, Wendy, John · What happens: know, be, begin, scrawl, mind · To what, where: minds · 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 (pond, Peter, Wendy, John), 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 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Peter	case
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 Peter	det
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 here	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 here	cc
8	yet	yet	ADV	_	11 here	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 here	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 here	cop
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 knew	ccomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 there	cc
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 here	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 John	case
15	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 minds	nmod:poss
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Michael	cc
17	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 John	conj
18	’s	's	PART	_	15 John	case
19	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knew	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 began	mark
22	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 began	nsubj
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 Wendy	case
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	27 scrawled	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 scrawled	aux:pass
27	scrawled	scrawl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 began	xcomp
28	all	all	ADV	_	29 over	advmod
29	over	over	ADV	_	27 scrawled	advmod
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 scrawled	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	pond	John and Michael's minds		of no Peter	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer mind=Stimulus
2	is	past	Peter		yet	here property	tree rules
3	begin	past	Wendy				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	scrawl	to-infinitive · passive	Wendy not said here			with Peter; over property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»
5	mind		John and Michael				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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