Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 35
To what extent Hook is to blame for his tactics on this occasion is for the historian to decide.
Who acts: extent Hook · What happens: be, decide · To what, where: occasion
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (extent Hook), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 blame | obl |
| 3 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Hook | compound |
| 4 | Hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blame | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 blame | cop |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 blame | mark |
| 7 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 tactics | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 tactics | nmod:poss |
| 10 | tactics | tactic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 blame | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 occasion | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 occasion | det |
| 13 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 historian | obl |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 historian | cop |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 historian | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 historian | det |
| 17 | historian | historian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blame | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 decide | mark |
| 19 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 historian | acl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 blame | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | extent Hook | for Hook's tactics; blame property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | this occasion | for the historian | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | decide | to-infinitive | extent Hook not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «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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