Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 33
This was true, Peter had forgotten to show them how to stop.
Who acts: This, Peter · What happens: be, forget, show, stop · To what, where: John · 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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 forgotten | punct |
| 5 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 forgotten | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 forgotten | aux |
| 7 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 true | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 show | mark |
| 9 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 forgotten | advcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 show | obj |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 stop | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 stop | mark |
| 13 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 show | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | This | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forget | past · perfect | Peter | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | John | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 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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