Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 31
Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?
Who acts: Most disquieting reflection · What happens: disquiet, not be, think · To what, where: bad form
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 (Most disquieting reflection), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 reflection | amod |
| 2 | disquieting | disquiet | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 reflection | amod |
| 3 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 form | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 reflection | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reflection | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 form | cop |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 form | nsubj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 form | advmod |
| 10 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 form | amod |
| 11 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 think | mark |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 form | acl |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 form | case |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 form | amod |
| 16 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 think | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 form | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disquiet | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | not is a | past | Most disquieting reflection of all | bad form | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | about good form | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about form=Topic |
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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