Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 103
What he did not know was that the faithful Liza had found it, and put it back on his wash-stand.
Who acts: Michael · What happens: not know, find, put back · To what, where: Liza, wash stand
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michael), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 found | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 found | aux:pass |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 found | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Liza | det |
| 9 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Liza | amod |
| 10 | Liza | Liza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 found | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 found | aux |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 found | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 put | cc |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 found | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 put | obj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 put | advmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 stand | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 stand | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wash | wash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stand | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 wash | punct |
| 23 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | Michael | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | find | past · perfect · passive | Liza | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme it=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | put back | infinitive | Liza | Michael's wash stand | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on stand=Destination |
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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