Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 81
Social success had not spoilt him; it had made him sweeter.
What happens: not spoil, make · To what, where: Social success, success
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: 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 | Social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 success | amod |
| 2 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoilt | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoilt | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 spoilt | advmod |
| 5 | spoilt | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spoilt | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | aux |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 spoilt | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | obj |
| 12 | sweeter | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 made | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoilt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not spoil | past · perfect · passive | Social success | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect · passive | success | sweet property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Product |
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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