Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 29

“How could we ever find our way back without him?”

Who acts: we · What happens: find back · To what, where: way

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 (we), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 find	advmod
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 find	aux
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 find	nsubj
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 find	advmod
6	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 way	nmod:poss
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obj
9	back	back	ADV	_	6 find	advmod
10	without	without	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 find	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find back in a quote	could	we	our way			ever	without Michael	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

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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