Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 57

It is an astounding thing to have to tell, but this man, though he knew about stocks and shares, had no real mastery of his tie.

Who acts: tie, man · What happens: be, have, tell, know, master · To what, where: astounding thing, man, real mastery, tie · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (tie, man), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	astounding	astounding	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 have	mark
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 tell	mark
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 had	cc
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 knew	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 knew	nsubj
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 man	acl:relcl
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 stocks	case
19	stocks	stock	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 knew	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 shares	cc
21	shares	share	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stocks	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	parataxis
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 mastery	det
25	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 mastery	amod
26	mastery	mastery	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 tie	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 tie	nmod:poss
29	tie	tie	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mastery	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	tie	a astounding thing		tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive				tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	know	past	man	this man not said here	about stocks and shares	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
5	have	past	this man	no real mastery of man's tie		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mastery=Patient
6	master			man's tie		nom mastery «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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