Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 39
One cannot at least withhold a reluctant admiration for the wit that had conceived so bold a scheme, and the fell genius with which it was carried out.
Who acts: One, wit · What happens: not withhold, conceive, fall, carry out · To what, where: reluctant admiration, least, scheme, genius
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 (One, wit), 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 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 withhold | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 withhold | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 withhold | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 least | case |
| 5 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 withhold | obl |
| 6 | withhold | withhold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 admiration | det |
| 8 | reluctant | reluctant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 admiration | amod |
| 9 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 withhold | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 wit | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wit | det |
| 12 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 withhold | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 conceived | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 conceived | aux |
| 15 | conceived | conceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 wit | acl:relcl |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 bold | advmod |
| 17 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 conceived | xcomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 scheme | det |
| 19 | scheme | scheme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 conceived | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fell | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fell | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fell | det |
| 23 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 withhold | advcl |
| 24 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fell | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 carried | obl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 carried | aux:pass |
| 29 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 fell | parataxis |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 carried | compound:prt |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 withhold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not withhold | can | One | a reluctant admiration | least | for the wit | tree rules | ||
| 2 | conceive | past · perfect | the wit | a scheme | bold property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scheme=Theme | |||
| 3 | fall | past | One not said here | genius | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient genius=Result | ||||
| 4 | carry out | past · passive | genius | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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