Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 48
It was not his courage, it was not his engaging appearance, it was not—.
Who acts: truth · What happens: not be · To what, where: courage, engaging appearance
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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 courage | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 courage | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 courage | advmod |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 courage | nmod:poss |
| 5 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 appearance | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 appearance | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 appearance | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 appearance | advmod |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 11 | engaging | engaging | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 appearance | amod |
| 12 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 courage | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 — | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 — | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 — | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 — | advmod |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 courage | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 courage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | truth | Peter's courage and Peter's engaging appearance | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | truth | Peter's engaging appearance | 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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