Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 24
He thinks he remembers the days before he was lost, with their manners and customs, and this has given his nose an offensive tilt.
Who acts: Bell · What happens: think, remember, lose, give · To what, where: Bell, this · 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 (Bell), 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 | 2 thinks | nsubj |
| 2 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 remembers | nsubj |
| 4 | remembers | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 thinks | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 days | det |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 remembers | obj |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 lost | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lost | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lost | aux:pass |
| 10 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 remembers | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 manners | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 manners | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 manners | nmod:poss |
| 14 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 lost | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 customs | cc |
| 16 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 manners | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 given | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 given | cc |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 given | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 given | aux |
| 21 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 thinks | advcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 nose | nmod:poss |
| 23 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 given | obj |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 tilt | det |
| 25 | offensive | offensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tilt | amod |
| 26 | tilt | tilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 given | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Bell | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | remember | present | Bell | day | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lose | past · passive | Bell | with boys's manners and customs | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | give | present · perfect · passive | this | tree rules |
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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