Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 56

He, too, had been dressing for the party, and all had gone well with him until he came to his tie.

Who acts: excuse, all · What happens: dress, go, come · To what, where: tie

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: who acts (excuse, all), 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	7 dressing	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 He	punct
3	too	too	ADV	_	1 He	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 He	punct
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dressing	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 dressing	aux
7	dressing	dress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 party	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 party	det
10	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dressing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gone	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gone	cc
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 gone	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gone	aux
15	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 dressing	advcl
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 gone	advmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gone	obl
19	until	until	SCONJ	_	21 came	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gone	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 tie	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 tie	nmod:poss
24	tie	tie	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dressing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	dress	past · perfect · progressive	excuse		for the party	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past · perfect	all		with excuse; well property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary
3	come	past	excuse	excuse's tie		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tie=Initial_Location

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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