Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 13
The opportunity came a week later, on that never-to-be-forgotten Friday.
Who acts: opportunity · What happens: come, not forget
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 (opportunity), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 opportunity | det |
| 2 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 week | det |
| 5 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 later | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Friday | punct |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 Friday | case |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 Friday | nsubj |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 forgotten | advmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 forgotten | punct |
| 12 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 16 forgotten | mark |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 to | punct |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 forgotten | punct |
| 16 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Friday | amod |
| 17 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the opportunity | friday | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | not forget | to-infinitive · passive | tree rules |
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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