Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 26

It was not, she knew, that night had come, but something as dark as night had come.

Who acts: place, night, something · What happens: not be, come

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 (place, night, something), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knew	nsubj:outer
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knew	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 knew	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 knew	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knew	nsubj
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
11	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 knew	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 something	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 something	cc
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 come	nsubj
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 dark	advmod
16	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 something	amod
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 night	case
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dark	obl
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 come	parataxis
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not is	past	place	know property	tree rules
2	come	past · perfect	that night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past · perfect	something		vn escape-51.1-1 «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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