Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 82
At first Mrs. Darling did not know, but after thinking back into her childhood she just remembered a Peter Pan who was said to live with the fairies.
Who acts: mother · What happens: not know, think back, remember, say, live · To what, where: first Mrs. Darling, childhood, Peter Pan · 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 (mother), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 Darling | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 Darling | amod |
| 3 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Darling | compound |
| 4 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 know | obl |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 know | advmod |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remembered | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 remembered | cc |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 thinking | mark |
| 11 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 remembered | advcl |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 thinking | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 childhood | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 15 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thinking | obl |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 remembered | nsubj |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 remembered | advmod |
| 18 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Pan | det |
| 20 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Pan | compound |
| 21 | Pan | Pan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 remembered | obj |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 said | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | aux:pass |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 remembered | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 live | mark |
| 26 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 said | xcomp |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 fairies | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 fairies | det |
| 29 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 live | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | first Mrs. Darling | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | think back speech: other | gerund | mother not said here | mother's childhood | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | remember | past | mother | a Peter Pan | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent pan=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | live | to-infinitive | with the fairies | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with fairy=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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