Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 40

This is a difficult question, because it is quite impossible to say how time does wear on in the Neverland, where it is calculated by moons and suns, and there are ever so many more of them than on the mainland.

Who acts: This, time, moons, many · What happens: be, say, wear on, calculate · To what, where: difficult question, Neverland · 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 (This, time, moons, many), 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	5 question	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 question	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 question	det
4	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 question	amod
5	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 impossible	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 impossible	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 impossible	expl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 impossible	cop
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 impossible	advmod
11	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 question	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 say	mark
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 impossible	csubj
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 wear	advmod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wear	nsubj
16	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 wear	aux
17	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 say	ccomp
18	on	on	ADP	_	17 wear	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 Neverland	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Neverland	det
21	Neverland	Neverland	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 wear	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 calculated	punct
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 calculated	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 calculated	nsubj:pass
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 calculated	aux:pass
26	calculated	calculate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 Neverland	parataxis
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 moons	case
28	moons	moon	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 calculated	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 suns	cc
30	suns	sun	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 moons	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 are	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 are	cc
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 are	expl
34	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 question	parataxis
35	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	37 many	advmod
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 many	advmod
37	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 are	nsubj
38	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 many	advmod
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 them	case
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 more	nmod
41	than	than	ADP	_	44 mainland	case
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 mainland	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 mainland	det
44	mainland	mainland	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 more	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 question	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	This	a difficult question			tree rules
2	is	present	This not said here			impossible property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	wear on	present · do-support	time		the Neverland		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
5	calculate	present · passive	moons and suns	Neverland			tree rules
6	be	present	many		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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