Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 106

She is a pretty lady, but not so pretty as my mother.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: be · To what, where: pretty lady

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lady	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lady	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lady	det
4	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lady	amod
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mother	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 mother	cc
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 mother	advmod
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 pretty	advmod
10	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	13 mother	advmod
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 mother	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lady	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lady	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Peter	a pretty lady but my mother					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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