Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 135

The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to him make-believe and true were exactly the same thing.

Who acts: difference · What happens: be, make, believe · To what, where: Peter, same thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (difference), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 difference	det
2	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knew	nsubj:outer
3	between	between	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 difference	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 boys	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boys	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boys	amod
8	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 him	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 time	case
10	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 time	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boys	nmod
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 knew	cop
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 knew	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 believe	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 believe	cop
19	make	make	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 believe	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 make	punct
21	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 knew	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 make	mark
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 make	obl
26	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 believe	parataxis
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 believe	punct
28	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 make	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 true	cc
30	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 thing	advcl
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 thing	cop
32	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	35 thing	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 thing	det
34	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 thing	amod
35	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 believe	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the difference between Peter			know property	tree rules
2	is	past	difference			believe property	tree rules
3	make	infinitive			Peter		tree rules
4	believe	infinitive					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past		the same thing		exactly property	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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