Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 27
Peter never quite knew what twins were, and his band were not allowed to know anything he did not know, so these two were always vague about themselves, and did their best to give satisfaction by keeping close together in an apologetic sort of way.
Who acts: Peter, band, two · What happens: not know, not allow, know, be, do, give · To what, where: band, anything, best, satisfaction, apologetic sort, way
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 (Peter, band, two), 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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 knew | advmod |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 knew | advmod |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 knew | obj |
| 6 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 were | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 allowed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 allowed | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 band | nmod:poss |
| 11 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 allowed | aux:pass |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 allowed | advmod |
| 14 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 knew | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 know | mark |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 allowed | xcomp |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 know | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 know | advmod |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 anything | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 vague | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 vague | advmod |
| 24 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 two | det |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 vague | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 vague | cop |
| 27 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 28 vague | advmod |
| 28 | vague | vague | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 allowed | conj |
| 29 | about | about | ADP | _ | 30 themselves | case |
| 30 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 vague | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 did | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 did | cc |
| 33 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knew | conj |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 best | nmod:poss |
| 35 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 did | obj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 give | mark |
| 37 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 did | advcl |
| 38 | satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 give | obj |
| 39 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 40 keeping | mark |
| 40 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 give | advcl |
| 41 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 keeping | advmod |
| 42 | together | together | ADV | _ | 40 keeping | advmod |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 sort | case |
| 44 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 sort | det |
| 45 | apologetic | apologetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 sort | amod |
| 46 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 keeping | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 way | case |
| 48 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 sort | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past | Peter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not allow | past · passive | Peter's band | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | Peter's band not said here | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not know | past · do-support | Peter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | this two | about twins = twin; always, vague property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do | past | Peter not said here | twins's best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | give | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | satisfaction | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satisfaction=Theme | ||||
| 8 | keep | gerund | Peter not said here | a apologetic sort of way | close, together property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in sort=Location | |||
| 9 | sort | way | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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