Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 47

Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: not have, have · To what, where: Peter, slightest desire, one

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 (Peter), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 had	advmod
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	obj
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 mother	det
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 desire	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 desire	det
13	slightest	slight	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 desire	amod
14	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 have	mark
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 desire	acl
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 have	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not have	past		Peter	tree rules
2	have	past	Peter	the slightest desire	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient
3	have	to-infinitive	Peter not said here	one	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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