Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 44

He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to say for certain what had been happening.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: come down, laugh, say, forget, come up, stick · To what, where: something, Peter · 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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 come	xcomp
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 something	case
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 laughing	obl
8	fearfully	fearfully	ADV	_	9 funny	advmod
9	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 something	amod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saying	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saying	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 saying	aux
13	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 something	acl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 star	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 star	det
16	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saying	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 forgotten	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 forgotten	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 forgotten	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 forgotten	aux
21	already	already	ADV	_	22 forgotten	advmod
22	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 saying	ccomp
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 forgotten	obj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 was	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 what	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 come	punct
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 come	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 come	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 forgotten	conj
31	up	up	ADV	_	30 come	advmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 scales	case
33	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 scales	compound
34	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 come	obl
35	still	still	ADV	_	36 sticking	advmod
36	sticking	stick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 come	advcl
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 sticking	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 able	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 able	cc
41	yet	yet	ADV	_	44 able	advmod
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 able	advmod
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 able	cop
44	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 forgotten	advcl
45	to	to	PART	_	46 say	mark
46	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 able	xcomp
47	for	for	ADP	_	48 certain	case
48	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 say	obl
49	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	52 happening	nsubj
50	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 happening	aux
51	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	52 happening	aux
52	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 say	ccomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	would	Peter				down property	tree rules
2	laugh	gerund	Peter not said here		something			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past · perfect · progressive	Peter				to a star	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to star=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	forget	past · perfect	Peter					tree rules
5	come up	would	Peter				with mermaid scales	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stick	gerund	Peter not said here	Peter		still		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	not is	infinitive	Peter not said here			yet	able property	tree rules
8	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Peter not said here				for certain	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	happen	past · perfect · progressive						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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