Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 81

Peter was a little annoyed with them for knowing so much, but if he wanted to lord it over them his triumph was at hand, for have I not told you that anon fear fell upon them?

Who acts: Peter, triumph, I, anon fear · What happens: be, know, want, lord, have, not tell · To what, where: path, hand, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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, triumph, I, anon fear), 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	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 annoyed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 annoyed	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 little	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 annoyed	obl:unmarked
5	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 annoyed	obl
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 knowing	mark
9	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 annoyed	advcl
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADV	_	9 knowing	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wanted	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 wanted	cc
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 wanted	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wanted	nsubj
16	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 annoyed	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 lord	mark
18	lord	lord	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wanted	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lord	obj
20	over	over	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lord	obl
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 triumph	nmod:poss
23	triumph	triumph	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hand	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 hand	cop
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 hand	case
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lord	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 have	mark
29	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 wanted	parataxis
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 told	nsubj
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 told	advmod
32	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 have	ccomp
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 told	iobj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 fell	mark
35	anon	anon	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fear	compound
36	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fell	nsubj
37	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 told	advcl
38	upon	upon	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 fell	obl
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 annoyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Peter				with sides = side; a little obl:unmarked; annoyed property	tree rules
2	know	gerund	Peter not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	want a condition, not said to happen	past	Peter					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	lord not said to happen	to-infinitive	Peter not said here	path			over sides = side	tree rules
5	is	past	Peter's triumph			hand		tree rules
6	have	present						tree rules
7	not tell speech: assert	past	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
8	fall	past	anon fear				upon sides = side	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=Location
9	triumph		Peter					nom triumph «event intransitive»: 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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