Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 17
This inscrutable man never felt more alone than when surrounded by his dogs.
Who acts: inscrutable man · What happens: not feel, surround
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inscrutable 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 man | det |
| 2 | inscrutable | inscrutable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 felt | advmod |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 alone | advmod |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 felt | xcomp |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 surrounded | mark |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 surrounded | advmod |
| 10 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 alone | advcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 dogs | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel | past | this inscrutable man | alone property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | surround | participle | this inscrutable man not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/17/