Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 157

The silly moles had not the sense to see that they did not need a door apiece.

Who acts: silly moles, moles · What happens: have, see, not need · To what, where: sense, door apiece

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silly moles, moles), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moles	det
2	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moles	amod
3	moles	mole	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 sense	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sense	det
7	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	advcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 need	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 need	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 need	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 need	advmod
14	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 see	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 apiece	det
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 apiece	compound
17	apiece	apiece	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 need	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	the silly moles	the sense	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient
2	see	to-infinitive	the silly moles not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	not need	past · do-support	moles = mole	a door apiece	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot apiece=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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