Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 73

It is humiliating to have to confess that this conceit of Peter was one of his most fascinating qualities.

Who acts: cleverness, conceit · What happens: humiliate, have, confess, be · To what, where: one

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 (cleverness, conceit), 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	3 humiliating	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 humiliating	aux
3	humiliating	humiliate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 have	mark
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 humiliating	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 confess	mark
7	confess	confess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	xcomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 one	mark
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 conceit	det
10	conceit	conceit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 one	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Peter	case
12	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 conceit	nmod
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 one	cop
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 confess	ccomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 qualities	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 qualities	nmod:poss
17	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 qualities	amod
18	fascinating	fascinating	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 qualities	amod
19	qualities	quality	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 humiliating	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	humiliate	present · progressive	cleverness			tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive	cleverness not said here			tree rules
3	confess	to-infinitive	cleverness not said here			vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	this conceit of Peter	one	of Peter's most fascinating qualities	tree rules

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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