Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 64
Peter had seen many tragedies, but he had forgotten them all.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: see, forget · To what, where: many tragedies, voices
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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | aux |
| 3 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tragedies | amod |
| 5 | tragedies | tragedy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seen | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 forgotten | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 forgotten | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 forgotten | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 forgotten | aux |
| 10 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 seen | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 forgotten | obj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect | Peter | many tragedies | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tragedy=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | forget | past · perfect | Peter | voices = voice | tree rules |
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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