Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 196

The lateness of the hour was almost the biggest thing of all.

Who acts: lateness · What happens: be · To what, where: biggest thing

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 (lateness), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lateness	det
2	lateness	lateness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thing	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 hour	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hour	det
5	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lateness	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thing	cop
7	almost	almost	ADV	_	10 thing	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 thing	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the lateness of the hour	the biggest thing				of all; almost 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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