Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 65

He often went out alone, and when he came back you were never absolutely certain whether he had had an adventure or not.

Who acts: sort, you · What happens: go out, come back, be, have · To what, where: adventure

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 (sort, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 certain	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 certain	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 came	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 certain	advcl
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 certain	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 certain	cop
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 absolutely	advmod
15	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	16 certain	advmod
16	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	conj
17	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	20 had	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 had	aux
20	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 certain	advcl
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 adventure	det
22	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 not	cc
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 had	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go out	past	sort		alone, often, out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come back	past	sort			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	you		absolutely, certain property	tree rules
4	have	past · perfect	sort	a adventure		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Patient

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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