Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 70
Alas, he had already forgotten that he owed his bliss to Wendy.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: forget, owe · To what, where: bliss, Wendy · 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 (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 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 6 forgotten | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alas | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 forgotten | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 forgotten | aux |
| 5 | already | already | ADV | _ | 6 forgotten | advmod |
| 6 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 owed | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 owed | nsubj |
| 9 | owed | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 forgotten | ccomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bliss | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bliss | bliss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 owed | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Wendy | case |
| 13 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 owed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past · perfect | Peter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | owe | past | Peter | Peter's bliss | Wendy | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent bliss=Theme to wendy=Goal |
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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