Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 151
There was no other course but to press forward in redskin fashion, at which happily he was an adept.
Who acts: other course, redskin fashion · What happens: be, press forward · To what, where: redskin fashion, adept
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other course, redskin fashion), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 course | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 course | amod |
| 5 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 press | cc |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 press | mark |
| 8 | press | press | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 was | conj |
| 9 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 8 press | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 fashion | case |
| 11 | redskin | redskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fashion | compound |
| 12 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 press | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 adept | punct |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 adept | nsubj |
| 16 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 20 adept | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 adept | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 adept | cop |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 adept | det |
| 20 | adept | adept | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fashion | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no other course | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | press forward | to-infinitive | no other course not said here | redskin fashion and a adept | forward property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is a | past | redskin fashion and a adept | a adept | happily property | 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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