Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 20

To reveal who he really was would even at this date set the country in a blaze; but as those who read between the lines must already have guessed, he had been at a famous public school; and its traditions still clung to him like garments, with which indeed they are largely concerned.

Who acts: Hook, traditions · What happens: reveal, be, set, read, guess, cling · To what, where: date, country, blaze, lines, famous public school, Hook

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 (Hook, traditions), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 reveal	mark
2	reveal	reveal	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 set	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 set	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	11 date	advmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 date	cop
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 date	aux
8	even	even	ADV	_	11 date	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 date	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 date	det
11	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 set	nsubj
12	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reveal	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 country	det
14	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 set	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 blaze	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 blaze	det
17	blaze	blaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 set	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 those	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 those	cc
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 those	case
21	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 reveal	obl
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 read	nsubj
23	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 those	acl:relcl
24	between	between	ADP	_	26 lines	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 lines	det
26	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 read	obl
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 guessed	aux
28	already	already	ADV	_	30 guessed	advmod
29	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 guessed	aux
30	guessed	guess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 lines	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 those	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 school	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 school	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 school	cop
35	at	at	ADP	_	39 school	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 school	det
37	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 school	amod
38	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 school	amod
39	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 those	acl:relcl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 clung	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 clung	cc
42	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 traditions	nmod:poss
43	traditions	tradition	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 clung	nsubj
44	still	still	ADV	_	45 clung	advmod
45	clung	cling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 those	acl:relcl
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 him	case
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 clung	obl
48	like	like	ADP	_	49 garments	case
49	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 clung	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 concerned	punct
51	with	with	ADP	_	52 which	case
52	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 concerned	obl
53	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	57 concerned	advmod
54	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 concerned	nsubj
55	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 concerned	cop
56	largely	largely	ADV	_	57 concerned	advmod
57	concerned	concerned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 clung	advcl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reveal	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reveal	to-infinitive						as those	vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is	would · past				this date			tree rules
3	set	past		the country		a blaze			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent country=Theme in blaze=Destination
4	read	present						between the lines	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	guess	must · perfect		the lines not said here					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	past · perfect	Hook			a famous public school			tree rules
7	cling	past	date's traditions		Hook		still	like garments	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to he=Co-Theme
8	is	present	traditions = tradition					concerned, indeed, largely 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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