Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 32
We should have to go on, for we don’t know how to stop.”
Who acts: We · What happens: have, go on, not know, stop · 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 (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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | xcomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 know | mark |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | aux |
| 11 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 know | advmod |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 stop | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 stop | mark |
| 15 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 know | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | should | We | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go on | to-infinitive | We not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not know | present · do-support | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | stop | to-infinitive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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