Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 29

“I am the only man whom Barbecue feared,” he urged, “and Flint feared Barbecue.”

Who acts: tap tap, Barbecue, Flint · What happens: be, fear, urge · To what, where: only man, Barbecue

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 (tap tap, Barbecue, Flint), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 man	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 feared	obj
8	Barbecue	Barbecue	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 feared	nsubj
9	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 feared	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 feared	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 urged	nsubj
13	urged	urge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 feared	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 feared	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 feared	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Flint	cc
17	Flint	Flint	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 feared	nsubj
18	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 urged	conj
19	Barbecue	Barbecue	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 feared	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the tap tap from form's school = tap	the only man	tree rules
2	fear in a quote	past	Barbecue	the only man	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
3	urge	past	Barbecue		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	fear in a quote	past	Flint	Barbecue	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer barbecue=Stimulus

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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