Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 35

She proved to be quite a treasure of a nurse.

Who acts: Nana · What happens: prove, be · To what, where: treasure

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 (Nana), 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	2 proved	nsubj
2	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	7 treasure	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 treasure	cop
5	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	7 treasure	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 treasure	det
7	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 proved	ccomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 nurse	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 nurse	det
10	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 treasure	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 proved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	past	Nana						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is a	to-infinitive	Nana not said here	quite treasure				of a nurse	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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