Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 63

Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of you, and your own map can become intensely interesting, but catch them trying to draw a map of a child’s mind, which is not only confused, but keeps going round all the time.

Who acts: Doctors, own map, mind, child · What happens: draw, become, catch, try, not be, keep · To what, where: maps, Doctors, map

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 (Doctors, own map, mind, child), 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	Doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 draw	nsubj
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 draw	advmod
3	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 draw	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 parts	case
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 parts	amod
7	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 maps	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 parts	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 become	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 become	cc
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 map	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 map	amod
14	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 become	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 become	aux
16	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 draw	conj
17	intensely	intensely	ADV	_	18 interesting	advmod
18	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 become	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 catch	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 catch	cc
21	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 draw	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 catch	obj
23	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 catch	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 draw	mark
25	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 trying	xcomp
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 map	det
27	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 draw	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 mind	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 child	det
30	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 mind	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 child	case
32	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 map	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 confused	punct
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 confused	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 confused	cop
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 confused	advmod
37	only	only	ADV	_	38 confused	advmod
38	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 mind	acl:relcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 keeps	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 keeps	cc
41	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 draw	conj
42	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 keeps	xcomp
43	round	round	ADV	_	42 going	advmod
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 time	det:predet
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 time	det
46	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 going	obl:unmarked
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 draw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	draw	present	Doctors	maps of other parts of you		sometimes property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Theme
2	become	can	your own map			interesting property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	catch	infinitive	Doctors not said here	Doctors = doctor			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	try	gerund	Doctors not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	draw not said to happen	to-infinitive	Doctors not said here	a map of a child's mind			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Theme
6	not is	present	a child's mind			confused property	tree rules
7	keep	present	Doctors not said here				tree rules
8	go round	gerund	Doctors not said here		time	round property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	mind		a child				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/2/63/