Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 2

Hook, you remember, had sneered at the boys for thinking they needed a tree apiece, but this was ignorance, for unless your tree fitted you it was difficult to go up and down, and no two of the boys were quite the same size.

Who acts: you, boys, tree, two · What happens: remember, sneer, think, need, be, fit · To what, where: Hook, tree apiece, ignorance, you, same size · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, boys, tree, two), 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	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sneered	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 remember	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 remember	nsubj
4	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hook	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hook	punct
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sneered	aux
7	sneered	sneer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 boys	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boys	det
10	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sneered	obl:agent
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 thinking	mark
12	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sneered	advcl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 needed	nsubj
14	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thinking	ccomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 apiece	det
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 apiece	compound
17	apiece	apiece	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 needed	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ignorance	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 ignorance	cc
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 ignorance	det
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ignorance	cop
22	ignorance	ignorance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sneered	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fitted	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 fitted	mark
25	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	28 fitted	mark
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tree	nmod:poss
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fitted	nsubj
28	fitted	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sneered	parataxis
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 fitted	obj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 difficult	expl
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 difficult	cop
32	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fitted	parataxis
33	to	to	PART	_	34 go	mark
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 difficult	csubj
35	up	up	ADV	_	34 go	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 down	cc
37	down	down	ADV	_	35 up	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 size	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 size	cc
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 two	det
41	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 size	nsubj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 boys	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 boys	det
44	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 two	nmod
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 size	cop
46	quite	quite	ADV	_	49 size	advmod
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 size	det
48	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 size	amod
49	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sneered	parataxis
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sneered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remember	present	you			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	sneer	past · perfect · passive	the boys	Hook		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	think speech: other	gerund	the boys not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	need	past	boys = boy	a tree apiece		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot apiece=Theme
5	is a	past		this ignorance		tree rules
6	fit a condition, not said to happen	past	your tree	you		vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
7	is	past			difficult property	tree rules
8	go up	to-infinitive				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
9	is a	past	no two of the boys	the same size		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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