Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 144
Of course Peter should have kept quiet, but of course he did not.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: keep, not do
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Peter | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | obl |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 kept | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 kept | aux |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kept | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 did | cc |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 13 did | advmod |
| 11 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 of | fixed |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 did | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kept | conj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 did | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | should · perfect | of Peter; quiet property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not do | past | Peter | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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