Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 46

True he had flung Hook’s arm to the crocodile, but even this and the increased insecurity of life to which it led, owing to the crocodile’s pertinacity, hardly account for a vindictiveness so relentless and malignant.

Who acts: Peter, this, arm · What happens: fling, increase, insecurity, lead, owe · To what, where: arm, crocodile, pertinacity

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, this, arm), 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	True	true	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flung	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flung	aux
4	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 True	acl:relcl
5	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arm	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Hook	case
7	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flung	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 crocodile	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 crocodile	det
10	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flung	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 insecurity	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 insecurity	cc
13	even	even	ADV	_	18 insecurity	advmod
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 insecurity	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 insecurity	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 insecurity	det
17	increased	increase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 insecurity	amod
18	insecurity	insecurity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 True	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 life	case
20	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 insecurity	nmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 which	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 led	obl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 led	nsubj
24	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 insecurity	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 owing	punct
26	owing	owe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 led	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	31 pertinacity	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 crocodile	det
29	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pertinacity	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 crocodile	case
31	pertinacity	pertinacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 owing	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 account	punct
33	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	34 account	advmod
34	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pertinacity	conj
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 vindictiveness	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 vindictiveness	det
37	vindictiveness	vindictiveness	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 owing	obl
38	so	so	ADV	_	39 relentless	advmod
39	relentless	relentless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 owing	advcl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 malignant	cc
41	malignant	malignant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 relentless	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	fling	past · perfect	Peter	Hook's arm	the crocodile		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arm=Theme to crocodile=Destination
2	increase	participle					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	insecurity		this			of life	tree rules
4	lead	past	arm			to the increased insecurity	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to which=Patient
5	owe	gerund	arm not said here			to the crocodile's pertinacity and account goal; for a vindictiveness	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to pertinacity=Goal

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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