Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 6

They recalled with contempt that not so long ago they had thought themselves fine fellows for being able to fly round a room.

Who acts: John · What happens: recall, think, be, fly · To what, where: John, room · 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), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 recalled	nsubj
2	recalled	recall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 contempt	case
4	contempt	contempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 recalled	obl
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 thought	obj
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 long	advmod
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 ago	advmod
9	ago	ago	ADV	_	12 thought	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thought	aux
12	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 contempt	acl:relcl
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 thought	obj
14	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fellows	amod
15	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 thought	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 able	case
17	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 able	cop
18	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thought	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 fly	mark
20	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 able	xcomp
21	round	round	ADP	_	23 room	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 room	det
23	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fly	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 recalled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	recall	past	John			with contempt	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past · perfect · passive		John		ago property	tree rules
3	is	gerund				able property	tree rules
4	fly	to-infinitive			a room		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round room=Trajectory

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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