Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 179

It was a high compliment to Peter that at that dire moment their thoughts turned to him.

Who acts: danger, high compliment, tongues · What happens: be, turn, think · To what, where: high compliment, Peter, thought

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (danger, high compliment, tongues), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 compliment	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 compliment	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 compliment	det
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 compliment	amod
5	compliment	compliment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Peter	case
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 compliment	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 turned	nsubj
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 moment	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 moment	det
11	dire	dire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 moment	amod
12	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 turned	obl
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 thoughts	nmod:poss
14	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 turned	nsubj
15	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 compliment	acl:relcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 turned	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 compliment	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	is a	past	danger	a high compliment	Peter		tree rules
2	turn	past	a high compliment		thought	moment	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result
3	think		tongues = tongue				nom thought «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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