Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 87

She meant that he was her size in both mind and body; she didn’t know how she knew, she just knew it.

Who acts: Wendy, Peter · What happens: mean, be, not know, know · To what, where: size, mind · 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 (Wendy, Peter), 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 meant	nsubj
2	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 size	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 size	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 size	cop
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 size	nmod:poss
7	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 meant	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 mind	case
9	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	10 mind	det
10	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 size	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 body	cc
12	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mind	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 know	aux
16	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 know	advmod
17	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 meant	conj
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 knew	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 knew	nsubj
20	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 know	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 knew	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 knew	nsubj
23	just	just	ADV	_	24 knew	advmod
24	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 meant	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 knew	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 meant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	mean	past	Wendy			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Peter	Wendy's size	both mind and body	tree rules
3	not know	past · do-support	Wendy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	know	past	Wendy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	know	past	Wendy	size		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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