Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 59

It may have been Quixotic, but it was magnificent.

Who acts: young · What happens: be

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 (young), 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	5 Quixotic	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 Quixotic	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 Quixotic	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 Quixotic	cop
5	Quixotic	quixotic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 magnificent	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 magnificent	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 magnificent	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 magnificent	cop
10	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Quixotic	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 Quixotic	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	may · perfect	young					quixotic property	tree rules
2	is	past	young					magnificent 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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