Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 2

That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland; but even birds, carrying maps and consulting them at windy corners, could not have sighted it with these instructions.

Who acts: Wendy, birds · What happens: tell, be, carry, consult, not sight · To what, where: That, birds, way, maps, windy corners, Neverland · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wendy, birds), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 told	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 way	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Wendy	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 way	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 Neverland	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Neverland	det
13	Neverland	Neverland	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 way	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 birds	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 birds	cc
16	even	even	ADV	_	17 birds	advmod
17	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 told	iobj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 carrying	punct
19	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 birds	acl
20	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 carrying	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 consulting	cc
22	consulting	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 carrying	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 consulting	obj
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 corners	case
25	windy	windy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 corners	amod
26	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 consulting	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sighted	punct
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 sighted	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 sighted	advmod
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 sighted	aux
31	sighted	sight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 birds	acl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sighted	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 instructions	case
34	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 instructions	det
35	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sighted	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		That	birds			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient bird=Topic
2	is a	past	Wendy	the way			to the Neverland	tree rules
3	carry	gerund	birds not said here	maps				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Theme
4	consult	gerund	birds not said here	maps = map		windy corners		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	not sight	could · perfect	birds not said here	Neverland			with this instructions	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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