Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 37

What he should perhaps have done was to acquaint his opponents that he proposed to follow a new method.

Who acts: Hook · What happens: do, be, propose, follow · To what, where: new method

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 (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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 acquaint	nsubj:outer
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 done	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux
4	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 done	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 done	aux
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 What	acl:relcl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 acquaint	cop
8	to	to	PART	_	9 acquaint	mark
9	acquaint	acquaint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 opponents	nmod:poss
11	opponents	opponent	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 acquaint	obj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 proposed	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 proposed	nsubj
14	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 acquaint	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 follow	mark
16	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 proposed	xcomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 method	det
18	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 method	amod
19	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 follow	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 acquaint	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	should · perfect	Hook		perhaps property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past			acquaint property	tree rules
3	propose	past	Hook			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	follow	to-infinitive	Hook not said here	a new method		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent method=Theme

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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