Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 157

“Oh, no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.”

Who acts: you, girls · What happens: know, be, fall · To what, where: girls, prams

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, girls), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 clever	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 girls	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 Oh	discourse
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 clever	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
9	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 girls	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 clever	cop
12	much	much	ADV	_	14 clever	advmod
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 clever	advmod
14	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 fall	mark
16	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 clever	advcl
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 prams	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 prams	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 prams	nmod:poss
20	prams	pram	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fall	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 clever	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 clever	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	you	girls not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus
2	is in a quote	present	girls			clever property	tree rules
3	fall in a quote	to-infinitive	girls not said here		Gardens's prams		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out pram=Location

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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