Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 2
Peter had saved Tiger Lily from a dreadful fate, and now there was nothing she and her braves would not do for him.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: save, be, not do · To what, where: Peter, dreadful fate, nothing
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 (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 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saved | aux |
| 3 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Lily | compound |
| 5 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saved | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 fate | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fate | det |
| 8 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fate | amod |
| 9 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saved | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nothing | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 was | cc |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 was | advmod |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 nothing | cop |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 saved | parataxis |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 do | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 braves | cc |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 braves | nmod:poss |
| 19 | braves | brave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 she | conj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 do | advmod |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 do | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past · perfect · passive | Peter | a dreadful fate | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary lily=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | nothing | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not do | would | Peter | for Lily | 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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