Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 136

This sometimes troubled them, as when they had to make-believe that they had had their dinners.

Who acts: This, boys · What happens: trouble, have, make, believe · To what, where: boys, dinners · 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 (This, boys), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 troubled	nsubj
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 troubled	advmod
3	troubled	trouble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 troubled	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 had	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 troubled	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 make	mark
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 had	xcomp
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 believe	punct
13	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 make	xcomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 had	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 had	aux
17	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 believe	ccomp
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 dinners	nmod:poss
19	dinners	dinner	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 had	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 troubled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	trouble	past	This	boys = boy	sometimes property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
2	have	past	boys = boy			tree rules
3	make	to-infinitive	boys = boy not said here			tree rules
4	believe	infinitive	boys = boy not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	have	past · perfect	boys = boy	boys's dinners		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=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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