Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 84

She had believed in him at the time, but now that she was married and full of sense she quite doubted whether there was any such person.

Who acts: way, such person · What happens: believe, marry, doubt, be · To what, where: way, sense

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 (way, such person), 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	3 believed	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 believed	aux
3	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 believed	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 believed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 married	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 married	cc
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 married	advmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 married	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 married	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 married	aux:pass
15	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 believed	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 full	cc
17	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 married	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 sense	case
19	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 full	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 doubted	nsubj
21	quite	quite	ADV	_	22 doubted	advmod
22	doubted	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sense	acl:relcl
23	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	25 was	mark
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 was	expl
25	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 doubted	ccomp
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 person	det
27	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 person	amod
28	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 was	nsubj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 believed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past · perfect	way			time	in Peter	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	marry	past · passive		way		now		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	doubt	past	way	sense not said here				vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent sense=Theme clause=Attribute
4	be	past	any such person		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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