Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 81

That is a pretty story, and the end shows how grateful a bird can be; but if we tell it we must also tell the whole adventure of the lagoon, which would of course be telling two adventures rather than just one.

Who acts: That, end, we, whole adventure · What happens: be, show, tell, adventure · To what, where: pretty story, end, two adventures, lagoon · 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 (That, end, we, whole adventure), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 story	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 story	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shows	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shows	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shows	nsubj
10	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 story	parataxis
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 grateful	advmod
12	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shows	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bird	det
14	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 be	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 be	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 grateful	cop
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 tell	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 tell	cc
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 tell	mark
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 tell	nsubj
21	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 tell	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tell	obj
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 tell	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 tell	aux
25	also	also	ADV	_	26 tell	advmod
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 shows	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 adventure	det
28	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 adventure	amod
29	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 telling	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 lagoon	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 lagoon	det
32	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 adventure	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 would	punct
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 would	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 telling	aux
36	of	of	ADP	_	35 would	obl
37	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 would	nsubj
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 telling	aux
39	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 tell	ccomp
40	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 adventures	nummod
41	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 telling	obj
42	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	45 one	cc
43	than	than	ADP	_	42 rather	fixed
44	just	just	ADV	_	45 one	advmod
45	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 adventures	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 story	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a pretty story			tree rules
2	show	present	the end				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	infinitive				grateful property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	we		end		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
5	tell speech: assert	must	we				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	tell speech: assert	would · progressive	the whole adventure of the lagoon	two adventures			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adventure=Recipient
7	adventure			the lagoon			nom adventure «act transitive»: of=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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