Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 145

They had done for his dogs, but this man alone seemed to be a match for them all.

Who acts: boys, man · What happens: do, seem, be · To what, where: match

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 (boys, man), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 done	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 done	aux
3	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 dogs	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dogs	nmod:poss
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 done	obl:agent
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seemed	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 seemed	cc
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seemed	nsubj
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	10 man	advmod
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 done	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	16 match	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 match	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 match	det
16	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seemed	xcomp
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 match	nmod
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 them	nmod:unmarked
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	boys = boy			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	seem	past	this man			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive	this man not said here	a match	for boys = boy	tree rules

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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