Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 107

Still, he liked them on the whole, and he told her about the beginning of fairies.

Who acts: life · What happens: like, tell, begin · To what, where: Gardens, whole, fairy, fairies · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	4 liked	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 liked	nsubj
4	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 liked	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 whole	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 whole	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 liked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 liked	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 beginning	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 beginning	det
16	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 fairies	case
18	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 beginning	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	like	past	life	Gardens = garden		the whole	still	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	life		fairy		about the beginning of fairies	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient about beginning=Topic
3	begin			fairies				nom beginning «event transitive»: of=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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