Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 87

It was an opportunity, his wife felt, for telling him about the boy.

Who acts: romp, wife · What happens: be, feel, tell · To what, where: opportunity, Mr. · 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 (romp, wife), 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	4 opportunity	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opportunity	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 opportunity	det
4	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 felt	punct
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 felt	nsubj
8	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opportunity	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 telling	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 telling	mark
11	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 felt	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 telling	iobj
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 boy	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 telling	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 opportunity	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	romp	a opportunity			tree rules
2	feel	past	Mr.'s wife	a opportunity not said here			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	Mr.'s wife not said here		Mr.	about the boy	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about boy=Topic

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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