Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 2

We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.

Who acts: We, Peter · What happens: use, say, waken, wake, be · To what, where: pluperfect · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (We, 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 use	nsubj
2	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 use	aux
3	to	to	PART	_	4 use	mark
4	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pluperfect	det
6	pluperfect	pluperfect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 use	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 say	cc
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 use	conj
9	wakened	waken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 say	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 woke	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 woke	cc
12	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 use	parataxis
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 better	cop
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 woke	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 used	cc
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 used	aux:pass
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 used	advmod
18	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 woke	conj
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 Peter	case
20	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 used	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	ought	We	the pluperfect		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pluperfect=Patient
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	We not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	waken	participle	We not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	wake	past				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is	present			good property	tree rules
6	use	past · passive	Peter		always property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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