Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 21

Would that he could hear us, but we are not really on the island, and he passes by, biting his knuckles.

Who acts: Bell, we · What happens: hear, not be, pass by, bite · To what, where: us, island, knuckles

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 (Bell, we), 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	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	aux
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 hear	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hear	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	aux
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 hear	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 island	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 island	cc
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 island	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 island	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 island	advmod
12	really	really	ADV	_	15 island	advmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 island	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 island	det
15	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 passes	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 passes	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 passes	nsubj
19	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	parataxis
20	by	by	ADP	_	19 passes	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 biting	punct
22	biting	bite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 passes	advcl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 knuckles	nmod:poss
24	knuckles	knuckle	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 biting	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	could	Bell	us		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus
2	not is	present	we		the island	tree rules
3	pass by	present	Bell			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bite	gerund	Bell not said here	Bell's knuckles		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knuckle=Patient

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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