Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 317

They would have reached the nursery in time had it not been that the little stars were watching them.

Who acts: stories, little stars · What happens: reach, have, not watch · To what, where: nursery, stories

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 (stories, little stars), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 reached	aux
4	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nursery	det
6	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 time	case
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obl
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	obj
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 watching	advmod
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 watching	aux
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 watching	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stars	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stars	amod
16	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 watching	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 watching	aux
18	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 had	xcomp
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 watching	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	reach	would · perfect	stories = story	the nursery	time	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent nursery=Theme
2	have	past		nursery		tree rules
3	not watch	participle · progressive	the little stars	stories = story		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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