Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 5

They called Peter the Great White Father, prostrating themselves before him; and he liked this tremendously, so that it was not really good for him.

Who acts: braves, Lily, pipe · What happens: call, prostrate, like, not be · To what, where: Peter, braves, this · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (braves, Lily, pipe), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 called	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Father	det
5	Great	Great	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 White	flat
6	White	White	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Father	amod
7	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 called	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 prostrating	punct
9	prostrating	prostrate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 called	advcl
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 prostrating	obj
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 prostrating	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 liked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 liked	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 liked	nsubj
16	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	parataxis
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 liked	obj
18	tremendously	tremendously	ADV	_	16 liked	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 good	punct
20	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 good	mark
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 so	fixed
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 good	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 good	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 good	advmod
25	really	really	ADV	_	26 good	advmod
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 liked	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 good	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	braves = brave		Peter			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent peter=Recipient
2	prostrate	gerund	braves = brave not said here	braves = brave		before Lily		tree rules
3	like	past	Lily	this			tremendously property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot this=Theme
4	not is	past	pipe				for Lily; good property	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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