Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 186

It made Peter kick instead of stab.

Who acts: foot, Peter · What happens: make, kick · To what, where: Peter

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 (foot, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
4	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	7 stab	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 instead	fixed
7	stab	stab	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kick	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	foot	Peter					tree rules
2	kick	infinitive	Peter not said here					instead stab	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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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