Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 38
On the other hand, this, as destroying the element of surprise, would have made his strategy of no avail, so that the whole question is beset with difficulties.
Who acts: this · What happens: destroy, make, be · To what, where: element, other hand, strategy
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 (this), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 hand | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hand | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hand | amod |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 destroying | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 destroying | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 destroying | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 destroying | mark |
| 9 | destroying | destroy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 element | det |
| 11 | element | element | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 destroying | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 surprise | case |
| 13 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 element | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 made | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 made | aux |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 destroying | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 strategy | nmod:poss |
| 19 | strategy | strategy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 avail | case |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 avail | det |
| 22 | avail | avail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 strategy | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 beset | punct |
| 24 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 30 beset | case |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 so | fixed |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 question | det |
| 27 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 question | amod |
| 28 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 beset | compound |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 beset | cop |
| 30 | beset | beset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 difficulties | case |
| 32 | difficulties | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 beset | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 destroying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | gerund | this | the element of surprise | the other hand | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent element=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | would · perfect | this not said here | Hook's strategy of no avail | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset strategy=Product | ||||
| 3 | is | present | so question beset; with difficulties | 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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