Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 301
Of course it was to this that Peter had been luring them.
Who acts: course, Peter · What happens: be, lure · To what, where: paws
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 (course, Peter), 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 | _ | 6 this | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 this | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 this | cop |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 luring | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 luring | mark |
| 8 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 luring | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 luring | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 luring | aux |
| 11 | luring | lure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 luring | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 luring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | course | of this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lure | past · perfect · progressive | Peter | paws = paw | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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