Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 99
Perhaps John had not behaved very well so far, but he shone out now.
Who acts: John · What happens: not behave, shine out
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 (John), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 behaved | advmod |
| 2 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 behaved | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 behaved | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 behaved | advmod |
| 5 | behaved | behave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 well | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 behaved | advmod |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 far | advmod |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 behaved | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shone | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 shone | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shone | nsubj |
| 13 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 behaved | parataxis |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 shone | advmod |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 shone | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 behaved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not behave | past · perfect | John | far, perhaps, well property | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | shine out | past | John | now | out property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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