Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 29

You never exactly knew whether there would be a real meal or just a make-believe, it all depended upon Peter’s whim: he could eat, really eat, if it was part of a game, but he could not stodge just to feel stodgy, which is what most children like better than anything else; the next best thing being to talk about it.

Who acts: You, real meal, make, it, meal, next best thing · What happens: not know, be, believe, depend, eat, not stodge · To what, where: real meal, part · 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, real meal, make, it), 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	4 knew	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 knew	advmod
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 knew	advmod
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	8 be	mark
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 be	expl
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 be	aux
8	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 knew	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 meal	det
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 meal	amod
11	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 be	nsubj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 believe	cc
13	just	just	ADV	_	17 believe	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 make	det
15	make	make	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 believe	nsubj
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 believe	punct
17	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 meal	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 depended	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 depended	nsubj
20	all	all	ADV	_	21 depended	advmod
21	depended	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 believe	ccomp
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 whim	case
23	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 whim	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Peter	case
25	whim	whim	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 depended	obl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 eat	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 eat	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 eat	aux
29	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 depended	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 eat	punct
31	really	really	ADV	_	32 eat	advmod
32	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 eat	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 part	punct
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 part	mark
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 part	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 part	cop
37	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 eat	advcl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 game	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 game	det
40	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 part	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 stodge	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 stodge	cc
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 stodge	nsubj
44	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 stodge	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 stodge	advmod
46	stodge	stodge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 eat	conj
47	just	just	ADV	_	49 feel	advmod
48	to	to	PART	_	49 feel	mark
49	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 stodge	xcomp
50	stodgy	stodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 feel	xcomp
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 what	punct
52	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 what	nsubj
53	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 what	cop
54	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	50 stodgy	parataxis
55	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	56 children	amod
56	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 better	nsubj
57	like	like	ADP	_	58 better	case
58	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	54 what	acl:relcl
59	than	than	ADP	_	60 anything	case
60	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	58 better	obl
61	else	else	ADV	_	60 anything	advmod
62	;	;	PUNCT	_	69 talk	punct
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 thing	det
64	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 thing	amod
65	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	66 thing	amod
66	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 talk	nsubj
67	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	69 talk	cop
68	to	to	PART	_	69 talk	mark
69	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 knew	conj
70	about	about	ADP	_	71 it	case
71	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 talk	obl
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know	past	You			exactly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	would	a real meal		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	believe	infinitive	a make	a real meal not said here			tree rules
4	depend	past	it			upon Peter's whim; all property	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	eat	could	make				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	eat	infinitive	make not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	meal	part		of a game	tree rules
8	not stodge	could	make				tree rules
9	feel	to-infinitive	make not said here			stodgy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
10	is a	present					tree rules
11	is	gerund	the next best thing			about meal; talk 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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