Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 25

They could not follow him in this with much success, so perhaps it was rather like showing off, especially as he kept looking behind to see how many tails they missed.

Who acts: John, success, Peter · What happens: not follow, be, keep, look, see, miss · To what, where: Peter, this, many tails

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 (John, success, Peter), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 follow	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 follow	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 follow	advmod
4	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 follow	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 follow	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 success	case
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 success	amod
10	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 follow	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 showing	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 perhaps	advmod
13	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	18 showing	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 showing	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 showing	cop
16	rather	rather	ADV	_	18 showing	advmod
17	like	like	SCONJ	_	18 showing	mark
18	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 follow	advcl
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 showing	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 kept	punct
21	especially	especially	ADV	_	24 kept	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 kept	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 kept	nsubj
24	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 showing	conj
25	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 kept	xcomp
26	behind	behind	ADV	_	25 looking	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 see	mark
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 looking	advcl
29	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 many	advmod
30	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tails	amod
31	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 see	obj
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 missed	nsubj
33	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 tails	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 follow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not follow	could	John	Peter	this	with much success	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in this=Trajectory
2	is	past	success			perhaps, show property	tree rules
3	keep	past	Peter			especially property	tree rules
4	look	gerund	Peter not said here			behind property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	see	to-infinitive	Peter not said here	many tails			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tail=Stimulus
6	miss	past	John	many tails not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tail=Stimulus

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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