Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 14

You ordinary children can never hear it, but if you were to hear it you would know that you had heard it once before.

Who acts: You · What happens: not hear, hear, know · To what, where: shadow · 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 (You), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 hear	nsubj
2	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 children	amod
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 You	conj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 hear	advmod
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hear	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 know	cc
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 hear	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 hear	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hear	aux
13	to	to	PART	_	14 hear	mark
14	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 know	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hear	obj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 know	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 know	aux
18	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hear	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 heard	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 heard	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 heard	aux
22	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 know	ccomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 heard	obj
24	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 heard	advmod
25	before	before	ADV	_	22 heard	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not hear	can	You	shadow		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	hear a condition, not said to happen	past	you	shadow		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	know	would	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	hear	past · perfect	you	shadow	before, once property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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