Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 20

Also he was fond of variety, and the sport that engrossed him one moment would suddenly cease to engage him, so there was always the possibility that the next time you fell he would let you go.

Who acts: Peter, sport, one moment, possibility, you · What happens: be, engross, cease, engage, fall, let · To what, where: Peter, you

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, sport, one moment, possibility), 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	Also	also	ADV	_	4 fond	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fond	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fond	cop
4	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 variety	case
6	variety	variety	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fond	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 engrossed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 engrossed	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sport	det
10	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 engrossed	nsubj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 engrossed	nsubj
12	engrossed	engross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fond	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 engrossed	obj
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 moment	nummod
15	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cease	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 cease	aux
17	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	18 cease	advmod
18	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 engrossed	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 engage	mark
20	engage	engage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 cease	xcomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 engage	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 was	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	25 was	advmod
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 was	expl
25	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fond	parataxis
26	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	25 was	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 possibility	det
28	possibility	possibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 was	nsubj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 fell	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 time	det
31	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 time	amod
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fell	obl
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 fell	nsubj
34	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 possibility	advcl
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 let	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 let	aux
37	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 fell	ccomp
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 let	obj
39	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 let	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Peter				of variety; fond property	tree rules
2	engross	past	the sport	Peter				tree rules
3	cease	would	one moment				suddenly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	engage	to-infinitive	one moment not said here	Peter				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	be	past	the possibility		there		always property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fall	past	you			time		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	let	would	Peter	you				tree rules
8	go	infinitive	you not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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