Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 58

Sometimes the thing yielded to him without a contest, but there were occasions when it would have been better for the house if he had swallowed his pride and used a made-up tie.

Who acts: thing, man · What happens: yield, be, swallow, use, make up, pride · To what, where: man, occasion, made 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 (thing, 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 yielded	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yielded	nsubj
4	yielded	yield	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 yielded	obl
7	without	without	ADP	_	9 contest	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 contest	det
9	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yielded	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 were	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 were	cc
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 were	expl
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 better	cop
14	occasions	occasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 were	nsubj
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 better	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 better	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 better	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 better	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 better	cop
20	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 yielded	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 house	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 house	det
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 better	obl
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 swallowed	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 swallowed	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 swallowed	aux
27	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 yielded	advcl
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 pride	nmod:poss
29	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 swallowed	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 used	cc
31	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 swallowed	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 tie	det
33	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 tie	amod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 up	punct
35	up	up	ADP	_	33 made	compound:prt
36	tie	tie	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 used	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 yielded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	yield	past	the thing		man	without a contest; sometimes property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to he=Pivot
2	is	would · past · perfect	thing			for the house; good property	tree rules
3	swallow a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		occasion			tree rules
4	use	past		a made tie			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tie=Patient
5	make up	participle					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
6	pride		man				nom pride «feeling 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.

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