Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 33

But she was a young mother and she did not know this; she thought you simply must stick to your rule about half an hour after the mid-day meal.

Who acts: Wendy, you, your · What happens: be, not know, think, stick, rule · To what, where: young mother, this · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Wendy, you, your), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 mother	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mother	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mother	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mother	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	amod
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 know	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 know	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 know	advmod
11	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 mother	conj
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 know	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thought	nsubj
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mother	parataxis
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 stick	nsubj
17	simply	simply	ADV	_	19 stick	advmod
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 stick	aux
19	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thought	ccomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 rule	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 rule	nmod:poss
22	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stick	obl
23	about	about	ADP	_	26 hour	case
24	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	26 hour	det:predet
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hour	det
26	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rule	nmod
27	after	after	ADP	_	30 meal	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 meal	det
29	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 meal	compound
30	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stick	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Wendy	a young mother			tree rules
2	not know	past · do-support	Wendy	this			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
3	think speech: other	past	Wendy				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	stick	must	you		after the mid-day meal	to your rule about half hour; simply property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to rule=Co-Patient
5	rule		your		about half hour		nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent about=obl

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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