Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 177
Misguided man though he was, we may be glad, without sympathising with him, that in the end he was true to the traditions of his race.
Who acts: Peter, that · What happens: misguide, be, sympathis, race · To what, where: Misguided man, end
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 (Peter, that), 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 | Misguided | misguide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 man | amod |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 10 glad | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 glad | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 glad | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 glad | punct |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 glad | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 glad | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 glad | cop |
| 10 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 man | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sympathising | punct |
| 12 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 13 sympathising | mark |
| 13 | sympathising | sympathis | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 glad | advcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sympathising | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 true | punct |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 true | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 end | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 end | det |
| 20 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 true | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 true | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 true | cop |
| 23 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sympathising | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 traditions | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 traditions | det |
| 26 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 true | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 race | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 race | nmod:poss |
| 29 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 traditions | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | misguide | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is | may · past | Peter | Misguided man not said here | glad property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sympathis | gerund | Peter not said here | with Peter | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | that | in the end | to the traditions of Peter's race; true property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | race | Peter | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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