Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 43

He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share.

Who acts: Peter, clouds · What happens: go, shoot, have · To what, where: sight, adventure, share

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, clouds), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 faster	advmod
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 go	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 they	case
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 faster	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 shoot	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 shoot	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 shoot	aux
12	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	13 shoot	advmod
13	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 they	acl
14	out	out	ADP	_	16 sight	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 sight	case
16	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shoot	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 have	mark
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 shoot	conj
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 adventure	det
21	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 had	obl
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 adventure	acl:relcl
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 share	det
27	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	could	Peter			fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shoot	would	Peter		sight	suddenly property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent out sight=Destination
3	have	to-infinitive	Peter not said here	some adventure			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Patient
4	have	past	clouds = cloud	no share	some adventure		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Patient

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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