Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 34

John said that if the worst came to the worst, all they had to do was to go straight on, for the world was round, and so in time they must come back to their own window.

Who acts: John, worst, all, world · What happens: say, come, have, do, be, come back · To what, where: worst, own window · 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 (John, worst, all, world), 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	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 came	mark
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 came	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 worst	det
6	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 go	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 worst	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 worst	det
10	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 go	nsubj:outer
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 all	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 do	mark
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 go	cop
18	to	to	PART	_	19 go	mark
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
20	straight	straight	ADV	_	21 on	advmod
21	on	on	ADV	_	19 go	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 round	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 round	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 world	det
25	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 round	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 round	cop
27	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 go	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 come	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 come	cc
30	so	so	ADV	_	35 come	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 time	case
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 come	obl
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 come	nsubj
34	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 come	aux
35	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	conj
36	back	back	ADV	_	35 come	advmod
37	to	to	ADP	_	40 window	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 window	nmod:poss
39	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 window	amod
40	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 come	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	John				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come a condition, not said to happen	past	the worst	the worst			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bad=Initial_Location
3	have	past	John				tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive	John not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	all			go property	tree rules
6	is	past	the world			round property	tree rules
7	come back	must	John	John's own window	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to window=Initial_Location

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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