Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 81

They were not only new trousers, but they were the first he had ever had with braid on them, and he had had to bite his lip to prevent the tears coming.

Who acts: trousers, most, new trousers, tears · What happens: not be, be, have, bite, prevent, come · To what, where: new trousers, lip, tears

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 (trousers, most, new trousers, tears), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 trousers	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 trousers	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 trousers	advmod
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 trousers	advmod
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trousers	amod
6	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 first	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 first	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 first	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 first	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 first	det
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 trousers	parataxis
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 had	aux
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 had	advmod
16	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 first	acl:relcl
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 braid	case
18	braid	braid	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obl
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 braid	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 had	aux
25	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 trousers	acl:relcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 bite	mark
27	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 had	xcomp
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 lip	nmod:poss
29	lip	lip	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bite	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 prevent	mark
31	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 bite	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 tears	det
33	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 prevent	obj
34	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 tears	acl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 trousers	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	trousers	new trousers			tree rules
2	is	past	trousers			first property	tree rules
3	have	past · perfect	most		ever	with braid on trousers	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	have	past · perfect	most	new trousers not said here			tree rules
5	bite	to-infinitive	new trousers not said here	most's lip			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient
6	prevent	to-infinitive	new trousers not said here	the tears			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer tear=Theme
7	come	gerund	the tears not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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