Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 166

This, of course, was nonsense; but it was proof to the unhappy Hook that Peter did not know in the least who or what he was, which is the very pinnacle of good form.

Who acts: This, nonsense, Peter, unhappy Hook · What happens: be, not know · To what, where: unhappy Hook, pinnacle

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 (This, nonsense, Peter, unhappy 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 nonsense	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nonsense	punct
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 nonsense	case
4	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 of	fixed
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 of	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 nonsense	cop
7	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 proof	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 proof	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 proof	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 proof	cop
12	proof	proof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nonsense	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 Hook	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Hook	det
15	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Hook	amod
16	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 proof	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 know	obj
18	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 know	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 know	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 know	advmod
21	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 Hook	acl:relcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	27 what	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 least	det
24	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 what	nsubj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 what	nsubj
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 what	cc
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 know	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 was	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 what	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 pinnacle	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 pinnacle	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 pinnacle	cop
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 pinnacle	det
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 pinnacle	advmod
35	pinnacle	pinnacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Hook	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 form	case
37	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 form	amod
38	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pinnacle	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 nonsense	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	This			of nonsense	tree rules
2	is	past	nonsense			to the unhappy Hook and the pinnacle; proof property	tree rules
3	not know	past · do-support	Peter	the unhappy Hook and the pinnacle	the unhappy Hook and the pinnacle		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
4	is a	present	the unhappy Hook and the pinnacle	the pinnacle		of good form	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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