Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 42

What did disturb her at times was that John remembered his parents vaguely only, as people he had once known, while Michael was quite willing to believe that she was really his mother.

Who acts: John, Michael, fireplace · What happens: disturb, be, know, believe · To what, where: fireplace, John, mother · 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 (John, Michael, fireplace), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 disturb	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 disturb	aux
3	disturb	disturb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 remembered	advcl
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 disturb	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 times	case
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 disturb	obl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 remembered	cop
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 remembered	mark
9	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 remembered	nsubj
10	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 parents	nmod:poss
12	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 remembered	obj
13	vaguely	vaguely	ADV	_	14 only	advmod
14	only	only	ADV	_	10 remembered	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 known	punct
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 people	case
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 known	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 known	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 known	aux
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 known	advmod
21	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 remembered	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 willing	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 willing	mark
24	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 willing	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 willing	cop
26	quite	quite	ADV	_	27 willing	advmod
27	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 known	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 believe	mark
29	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 willing	xcomp
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 mother	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 mother	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 mother	cop
33	really	really	ADV	_	35 mother	advmod
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 mother	nmod:poss
35	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 believe	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	disturb	past · do-support	John not said here	fireplace	time		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus what=Experiencer she=Result
2	is	past	John			remember property	tree rules
3	know	past · perfect · passive		John		as people; once property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as people=Attribute
4	is	past	Michael			willing property	tree rules
5	believe	to-infinitive	Michael not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	past	fireplace	Michael's mother			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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