Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 4

At first his companions trusted him implicitly, and so great were the delights of flying that they wasted time circling round church spires or any other tall objects on the way that took their fancy.

Who acts: companions, great delights, time, way · What happens: trust, be, fly, waste, circle, take · To what, where: Peter, great delights, way, fancy

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 (companions, great delights, time, way), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 trusted	obl
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 companions	nmod:poss
4	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 trusted	nsubj
5	trusted	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 trusted	obj
7	implicitly	implicitly	ADV	_	5 trusted	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 great	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 great	cc
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 great	advmod
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 delights	amod
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 delights	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 delights	det
14	delights	delight	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 trusted	obj
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 flying	mark
16	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 delights	acl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 wasted	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wasted	nsubj
19	wasted	waste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 flying	ccomp
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wasted	obj
21	circling	circle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 time	acl
22	round	round	ADP	_	24 spires	case
23	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spires	compound
24	spires	spire	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 circling	obl
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 objects	cc
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 objects	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 objects	amod
28	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 objects	amod
29	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 spires	conj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 way	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 way	det
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 circling	obl
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 took	nsubj
34	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 way	acl:relcl
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 fancy	nmod:poss
36	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 took	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 trusted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	past	Peter's companions	Peter			implicitly property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	is a	past		the great delights				tree rules
3	fly	gerund	the great delights not said here					tree rules
4	waste	past	companions = companion			time		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	circle	gerund	time not said here		the way		round church spires or any other tall objects	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
6	take	past	the way	companions's fancy				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme
7	fancy		companions = companion					nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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