Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 76

It was only in Peter’s absence that they could speak of mothers, the subject being forbidden by him as silly.

Who acts: favourite, mothers, Peter · What happens: be, speak, forbid · To what, where: absence, subject · 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 (favourite, mothers, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 absence	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 absence	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 absence	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 absence	case
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 absence	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Peter	case
7	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 speak	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 speak	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 speak	aux
11	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 absence	acl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 mothers	case
13	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 speak	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 subject	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 subject	det
16	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mothers	appos
17	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 forbidden	aux:pass
18	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 subject	acl
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 forbidden	obl
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 silly	case
22	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 forbidden	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 absence	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	favourite		Peter's absence		tree rules
2	speak speech: other	could	mothers = mother	Peter's absence not said here		of mothers	tree rules
3	forbid	gerund · passive	Peter	the subject not said here		as silly	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

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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