Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 112

But not one dared to face the door.

Who acts: one · What happens: dare, face · To what, where: door

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 dared	cc
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 one	advmod
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 dared	nsubj
4	dared	dare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 face	mark
6	face	face	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dared	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 face	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dare	participle	one						vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	face	to-infinitive	one not said here	the door					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Destination

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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