Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 19

Eventually Peter would dive through the air, and catch Michael just before he could strike the sea, and it was lovely the way he did it; but he always waited till the last moment, and you felt it was his cleverness that interested him and not the saving of human life.

Who acts: Peter, sea, you · What happens: dive, catch, strike, be, do, wait · To what, where: air, Michael, sea, cleverness

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 (Peter, sea, you), 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	Eventually	eventually	ADV	_	4 dive	advmod
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dive	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dive	aux
4	dive	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dive	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 catch	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 catch	cc
10	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dive	conj
11	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 catch	obj
12	just	just	ADV	_	10 catch	advmod
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 strike	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 strike	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 strike	aux
16	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 catch	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sea	det
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 strike	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lovely	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lovely	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 lovely	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 lovely	cop
23	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 catch	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 way	det
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lovely	obl:unmarked
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 did	nsubj
27	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 way	acl:relcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 did	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 waited	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 waited	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 waited	nsubj
32	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	33 waited	advmod
33	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dive	parataxis
34	till	till	ADP	_	37 moment	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 moment	det
36	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 moment	amod
37	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 waited	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 felt	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 felt	cc
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 felt	nsubj
41	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 waited	conj
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 cleverness	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 cleverness	cop
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 cleverness	nmod:poss
45	cleverness	cleverness	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 felt	ccomp
46	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 interested	nsubj
47	interested	interested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 cleverness	amod
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 interested	nsubj
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 saving	cc
50	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 saving	advmod
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 saving	det
52	saving	saving	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 cleverness	conj
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 life	case
54	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 life	amod
55	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 saving	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dive	would	Peter		the air		eventually property	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location
2	catch	infinitive	Peter not said here	Michael				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent michael=Theme
3	strike	could	Peter	the sea				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Patient
4	is	past	sea				the way obl:unmarked; lovely property	tree rules
5	do	past	Peter	sea				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	wait	past	Peter			moment	always property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	feel	past	you					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	is a	past	sea	Peter's cleverness and the saving of human life				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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