Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 40

It was in his darkest hours only that he referred to himself in the third person.

Who acts: ambition, Hook · What happens: be, refer · To what, where: 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 (ambition, Hook), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hours	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hours	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 hours	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hours	nmod:poss
5	darkest	dark	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 hours	amod
6	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 referred	parataxis
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 referred	advmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 referred	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 referred	nsubj
10	referred	refer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 himself	case
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 referred	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 person	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 person	det
15	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 person	amod
16	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 referred	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 referred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	ambition				in Hook's darkest hours		tree rules
2	refer	past	Hook		Hook			in the third person	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to himself=Co-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.

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