Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 125
“Father’s a cowardly custard.”
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’s | punct |
| 2 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ’s | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 custard | det |
| 5 | cowardly | cowardly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 custard | amod |
| 6 | custard | custard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ’s | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’s | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’s | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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