Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 54
Mastered by his better self he would have returned reluctantly up the tree, but for one thing.
Who acts: man · What happens: master, return · To what, where: tree
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), 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 | Mastered | master | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 thing | advcl |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 self | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 self | nmod:poss |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 self | amod |
| 5 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mastered | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 returned | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 returned | aux |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 returned | aux |
| 9 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Mastered | conj |
| 10 | reluctantly | reluctantly | ADV | _ | 9 returned | advmod |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 returned | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thing | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 thing | cc |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 thing | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 thing | nummod |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | master | participle | by man's better self | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | return | would · perfect | man | the tree | reluctantly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up tree=Initial_Location |
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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