Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 84

“Good heavens, if I had been a weak man!”

Who acts: head · What happens: be · To what, where: weak man

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 (head), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 heavens	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heavens	amod
3	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 man	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 man	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 man	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 man	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 man	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heavens	appos
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 heavens	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 heavens	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past · perfect	head	a weak man					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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