Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 80

You or I, not being wild things of the woods, would have heard nothing, but they heard it, and it was the grim song:

Who acts: You, wild things, mothers, book · What happens: not be, hear, be · To what, where: wild things, nothing, book, grim song

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 (You, wild things, mothers, book), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 things	nsubj
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 I	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 You	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 things	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 things	advmod
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 things	cop
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	amod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 woods	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woods	det
11	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 things	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 heard	aux
15	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 things	acl
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 heard	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heard	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 heard	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 heard	nsubj
20	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 heard	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 song	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 song	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 song	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 song	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 song	det
27	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 song	amod
28	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heard	conj
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 things	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	gerund	You	wild things	of the woods	tree rules
2	hear	would · perfect	wild things not said here	nothing		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	hear	past	mothers = mother	book		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	is a	past	book	the grim song		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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