Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 182
Peter, however, was not the kind that breaks down before other people.
Who acts: Peter, kind · What happens: not be, break down · To what, where: kind
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, kind), 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 | 8 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Peter | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 kind | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kind | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 kind | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 kind | det |
| 8 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 breaks | nsubj |
| 10 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 kind | acl:relcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 breaks | compound:prt |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 people | amod |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 breaks | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | Peter | the kind | however property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | break down | present | the kind | before other people | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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