Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 138

He was a lovely boy, clad in skeleton leaves and the juices that ooze out of trees but the most entrancing thing about him was that he had all his first teeth.

Who acts: dog, lovely boy, juices · What happens: be, clad, ooze, entrance · To what, where: lovely boy, skeleton leaves, trees

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, lovely boy, juices), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 boy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 clad	punct
7	clad	clad	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 leaves	case
9	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leaves	compound
10	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 clad	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 juices	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 juices	det
13	juices	juice	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 leaves	conj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 ooze	nsubj
15	ooze	ooze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 juices	acl:relcl
16	out	out	ADP	_	18 trees	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 trees	case
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ooze	obl
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 thing	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 thing	det
21	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	22 entrancing	advmod
22	entrancing	entrance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 thing	amod
23	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trees	conj
24	about	about	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thing	nmod
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 had	cop
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 had	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	acl:relcl
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 teeth	det:predet
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 teeth	nmod:poss
32	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	33 teeth	amod
33	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 had	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	dog	a lovely boy			tree rules
2	clad	past	a lovely boy not said here		skeleton leaves and the juices		tree rules
3	ooze	present	the juices		trees but the entrancing thing about dog		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out tree=Location
4	entrance	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	dog	a lovely boy not said here		have 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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