Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 63

Was his enemy to escape him after all?

What happens: be, escape · To what, where: enemy, Hook

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: 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 enemy	cop
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 enemy	nmod:poss
3	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 escape	mark
5	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 enemy	acl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 escape	obj
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 escape	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 enemy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Hook's enemy					tree rules
2	escape	to-infinitive		Hook			after all		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=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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