Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 85
Peter was really the best dancer among them, but he pretended to be scandalised.
Who acts: Peter, Curly · What happens: be, pretend, scandalis · To what, where: best dancer
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, Curly), 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 | 6 dancer | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dancer | cop |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 dancer | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dancer | det |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 dancer | amod |
| 6 | dancer | dancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dancer | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pretended | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 pretended | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pretended | nsubj |
| 12 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dancer | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 scandalised | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 scandalised | aux:pass |
| 15 | scandalised | scandalis | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 pretended | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dancer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Peter | the best dancer | among nuts = nut | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pretend | past | Curly | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | scandalis | to-infinitive · passive | Curly not said here | 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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