Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 93

For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.

Who acts: children, event, that · What happens: remember, mention, happen, be, meet, have · To what, where: wood, dead father, game

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 (children, event, that), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 instance	case
2	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 remember	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 instance	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 remember	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 remember	aux
6	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 mention	mark
8	mention	mention	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 remember	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 week	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 week	det
11	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mention	obl
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	15 happened	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 event	det
14	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 happened	nsubj
15	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mention	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wood	punct
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 wood	nsubj
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 wood	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wood	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 wood	cop
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 wood	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wood	det
23	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 remember	obl
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 met	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 met	aux
26	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 wood	acl:relcl
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 father	nmod:poss
28	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 father	amod
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 met	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 had	cc
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 met	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 game	det
33	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 game	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	may	children = child				for instance	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	mention speech: other	to-infinitive	children = child not said here			week		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	happen	past	the event					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	that		the wood			tree rules
5	meet	past · perfect	children = child	children's dead father				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Co-Agent
6	have	past	children = child not said here	a game			with event	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Patient

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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