Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 97

He really knew nothing about it, he had merely suspicions, but he said at a venture, “Wendy, I ran away the day I was born.”

Who acts: Peter, day · What happens: know, have, say, run away, bear · To what, where: nothing, suspicions, venture, Peter · 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, day), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 knew	advmod
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 knew	obj
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nothing	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	conj
10	merely	merely	ADV	_	11 suspicions	advmod
11	suspicions	suspicion	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	parataxis
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 venture	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 venture	det
18	venture	venture	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Wendy	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 Wendy	punct
21	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 venture	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ran	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 ran	nsubj
24	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	conj
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 ran	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ran	obl:unmarked
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 born	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 born	aux:pass
30	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 day	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	Peter	nothing			about question	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
2	have	past	Peter	suspicions				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suspicion=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	Peter		a venture			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	run away in a quote	past	Peter			day	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bear in a quote	past · passive	the day not said here	Peter				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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