Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 45

Peter was such a small boy that one tends to wonder at the man’s hatred of him.

Who acts: Peter, small boy · What happens: be, tend, wonder · To what, where: small boy, hatred

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 (Peter, small boy), 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	6 boy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 boy	cop
3	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	6 boy	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 tends	nsubj
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tends	nsubj
9	tends	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 boy	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 wonder	mark
11	wonder	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tends	xcomp
12	at	at	ADP	_	16 hatred	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hatred	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 man	case
16	hatred	hatred	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wonder	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hatred	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	Peter	such small boy		tree rules
2	tend	present	such small boy			tree rules
3	wonder speech: ask	to-infinitive	such small boy not said here		the man's hatred of Peter	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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