Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 27

Then one or more of them would break down altogether; Nana at the thought, “It’s true, it’s true, they ought not to have had a dog for a nurse.”

Who acts: one, thought, master · What happens: break down, be, not have · To what, where: Nana, thought, dog · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (one, thought, master), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 break	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 break	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 more	cc
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 one	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 one	nmod
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 break	aux
8	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 break	compound:prt
10	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	8 break	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 Nana	punct
12	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 break	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 thought	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 thought	det
15	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 break	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 true	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 true	punct
18	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 true	nsubj
19	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 true	cop
20	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thought	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 true	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 true	nsubj
23	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 true	cop
24	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 true	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
27	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 had	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 had	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	31 had	mark
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 had	aux
31	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 true	parataxis
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 dog	det
33	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obj
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 nurse	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 nurse	det
36	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dog	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 break	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 break	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break down	would	one of master	Nana	the thought	then	altogether property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is in a quote	present	thought				true property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	thought				true property	tree rules
4	not have in a quote	ought · perfect	master	a dog			for a nurse	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=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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