Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 56

So with occasional tiffs, but on the whole rollicking, they drew near the Neverland; for after many moons they did reach it, and, what is more, they had been going pretty straight all the time, not perhaps so much owing to the guidance of Peter or Tink as because the island was looking for them.

Who acts: amends, more, island · What happens: draw, reach, be, go, not owe, look · To what, where: Neverland, guidance, Peter

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 (amends, more, island), 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	So	so	ADV	_	13 drew	advmod
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 tiffs	case
3	occasional	occasional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tiffs	amod
4	tiffs	tiff	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 drew	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rollicking	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 rollicking	cc
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 rollicking	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rollicking	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rollicking	amod
10	rollicking	rollicking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tiffs	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tiffs	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 drew	nsubj
13	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	near	near	ADP	_	16 Neverland	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Neverland	det
16	Neverland	Neverland	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 drew	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 reach	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 moons	case
19	after	after	ADP	_	21 moons	case
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 moons	amod
21	moons	moon	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 reach	obl
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 reach	nsubj
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 reach	aux
24	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 drew	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 reach	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 going	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 going	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 more	punct
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 more	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 more	cop
31	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 going	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 more	punct
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 going	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 going	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 going	aux
36	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 drew	advcl
37	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	36 going	advmod
38	straight	straight	ADV	_	39 all	advmod
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 time	det:predet
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 time	det
41	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 going	obl:unmarked
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 owing	punct
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 owing	advmod
44	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	47 owing	advmod
45	so	so	ADV	_	46 much	advmod
46	much	much	ADV	_	47 owing	advmod
47	owing	owe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 going	conj
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 guidance	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 guidance	det
50	guidance	guidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 owing	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 Peter	case
52	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 guidance	nmod
53	or	or	CCONJ	_	54 Tink	cc
54	Tink	Tink	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Peter	conj
55	as	as	ADV	_	47 owing	advmod
56	because	because	SCONJ	_	60 looking	mark
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 island	det
58	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 looking	nsubj
59	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 looking	aux
60	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 owing	advcl
61	for	for	ADP	_	62 them	case
62	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 looking	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	amends = amend		the Neverland		with occasional tiffs but the whole rollicking	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reach	past · do-support	amends = amend	Neverland			for many moons	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for moon=Beneficiary
3	is	present					more property	tree rules
4	go	past · perfect · progressive	more			time	pretty property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not owe	gerund	more not said here				to the guidance of Peter or Tink goal; perhaps property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to guidance=Goal
6	look	past · progressive	the island				for amends = amend	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for they=Theme
7	guide			Peter or Tink				nom guidance «communication transitive»: of=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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