Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 47
The truth is that there was a something about Peter which goaded the pirate captain to frenzy.
Who acts: truth · What happens: be, goad, frenzy · To what, where: something, pirate captain
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 (truth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 truth | det |
| 2 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 something | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 something | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 was | mark |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 something | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 something | det |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 Peter | case |
| 10 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 something | nmod |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 goaded | nsubj |
| 12 | goaded | goad | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 something | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 captain | det |
| 14 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 captain | compound |
| 15 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 goaded | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 frenzy | mark |
| 17 | frenzy | frenzy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 goaded | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 something | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the truth | something | about Peter | tree rules | |||
| 2 | goad | past | the pirate captain | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=Patient | |||||
| 3 | frenzy | to-infinitive | 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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