Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 18

Madly addicted to the drinking of water when he was hot, he had swelled in consequence to his present girth, and instead of reducing himself to fit his tree he had, unknown to the others, whittled his tree to make it fit him.

Who acts: man, tree · What happens: addict, be, swell, reduce, fit, have · To what, where: man, tree, water

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 (man, tree), 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	Madly	madly	ADV	_	2 addicted	advmod
2	addicted	addict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 hot	advcl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 drinking	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 drinking	det
5	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 addicted	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drinking	nmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 hot	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hot	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hot	cop
11	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 swelled	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 swelled	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 swelled	aux
15	swelled	swell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 hot	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 consequence	case
17	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 swelled	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 girth	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 girth	nmod:poss
20	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 girth	amod
21	girth	girth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 consequence	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 reducing	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 reducing	cc
24	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 reducing	mark
25	of	of	ADP	_	24 instead	fixed
26	reducing	reduce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 hot	conj
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 reducing	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 fit	mark
29	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 reducing	advcl
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 tree	nmod:poss
31	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fit	obj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 tree	acl:relcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 unknown	punct
35	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tree	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 others	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 others	det
38	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 unknown	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 whittled	punct
40	whittled	whittle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hot	conj
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 tree	nmod:poss
42	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 whittled	obj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 make	mark
44	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 whittled	advcl
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 make	obj
46	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 make	xcomp
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 fit	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 hot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	addict	participle	man not said here		to the drinking of water; madly property	vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent to drinking=Theme
2	is	past	man		hot property	tree rules
3	swell	past · perfect	man		in consequence to man's present girth	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in consequence=Attribute
4	reduce	gerund	man not said here	man		vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer himself=Patient
5	fit	to-infinitive	man not said here	man's tree		vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
6	have	past	man	man's tree not said here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
7	whittle	past	man not said here	man's tree		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Product
8	make	to-infinitive	man not said here	tree		tree rules
9	fit	infinitive	tree not said here	man		vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
10	drink			water		nom drinking «act transitive»: of=patient

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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