Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 1

One important result of the brush on the lagoon was that it made the redskins their friends.

Who acts: One important result · What happens: be, result · To what, where: brush

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One important result), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 result	nummod
2	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 result	amod
3	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 brush	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brush	det
6	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 result	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 lagoon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lagoon	det
9	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brush	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	cop
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 made	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 redskins	det
15	redskins	redskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 made	obj
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 friends	nmod:poss
17	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 redskins	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	One important result of the brush on the lagoon					make property	tree rules
2	result			the brush on the lagoon					nom result «phenomenon 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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