Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 284

Of course Peter had been trifling with them, for no one can fly unless the fairy dust has been blown on him.

Who acts: one · What happens: trifle, fly, blow · To what, where: fairy dust

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	3 Peter	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 trifling	obl
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 trifling	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 trifling	aux
6	trifling	trifle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 trifling	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fly	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 fly	mark
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fly	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 fly	aux
14	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 trifling	conj
15	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	21 blown	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dust	det
17	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dust	amod
18	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 blown	nsubj:pass
19	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 blown	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 blown	aux:pass
21	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 fly	ccomp
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 blown	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 trifling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	trifle	past · perfect · progressive			of Peter; with syllables = syllable	vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=Theme
2	fly	can	no one			tree rules
3	blow a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect · passive		the fairy dust	on Peter	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=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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