Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 172

It is the only other thing fairies can’t do.”

Who acts: circle, fairies · What happens: be, not do · To what, where: only other thing

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 (circle, fairies), 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	6 thing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 do	nsubj
8	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
9	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 do	advmod
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	acl:relcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	circle	the only other thing					tree rules
2	not do	can	fairies	the only other thing not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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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