Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 171

That passionate breast no longer asked for life; but for one boon it craved: to see Peter show bad form before it was cold forever.

Who acts: That, breast, Peter · What happens: passionate, ask, crave, see, show, be · To what, where: breast, bad form · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (That, breast, Peter), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 passionate	nsubj
2	passionate	passionate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passionate	obj
4	no	no	ADV	_	5 longer	advmod
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 asked	advmod
6	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passionate	advcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 life	case
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asked	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 craved	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 craved	cc
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 boon	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 boon	nummod
13	boon	boon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 craved	obl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 craved	nsubj
15	craved	crave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passionate	parataxis
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 see	mark
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 craved	conj
19	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 show	nsubj
20	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 see	ccomp
21	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 form	amod
22	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 show	obj
23	before	before	SCONJ	_	26 cold	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 cold	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 cold	cop
26	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 show	ccomp
27	forever	forever	ADV	_	26 cold	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passionate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	passionate	present	That	breast		tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	That not said here		for life; long property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	crave	past	breast		for one boon	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for boon=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	breast not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	show	present	Peter	bad form		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent form=Recipient
6	is	past	breast		cold, forever property	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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