Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 76

Then they had to tell Peter of Tink’s crime, and almost never had they seen him look so stern.

Who acts: Nibs, Peter, Tink · What happens: have, tell, not see, look, incriminate · To what, where: Peter · 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 (Nibs, Peter, Tink), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 had	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 crime	case
8	Tink	Tink	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 crime	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 Tink	case
10	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Peter	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seen	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 seen	cc
13	almost	almost	ADV	_	14 never	advmod
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 seen	advmod
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 seen	aux
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seen	nsubj
17	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 had	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seen	obj
19	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 seen	xcomp
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 stern	advmod
21	stern	stern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 look	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Nibs = nib			then		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Nibs = nib not said here		Peter of Tink's crime			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent peter=Recipient
3	not see	past · perfect	Nibs = nib	Peter				tree rules
4	look	infinitive	Peter not said here				stern property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	incriminate		Tink					nom crime «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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