Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 126

He is the only man of whom Barbecue was afraid.”

Who acts: bo’sun, Barbecue · What happens: be · To what, where: only man

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bo’sun, Barbecue), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 man	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 man	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 whom	case
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 man	nmod
8	Barbecue	Barbecue	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 afraid	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 afraid	cop
10	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 whom	acl:relcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	bo’sun = bo'sun	the only man					tree rules
2	is	past	Barbecue					afraid property	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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