Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 183

It is quite the most successful way of defying wolves, and as one boy they bent and looked through their legs.

Who acts: leaf, successful way, wolves · What happens: be, defy, bend, look · To what, where: successful way, wolves

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 (leaf, successful way, wolves), 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	7 way	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 way	cop
3	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	7 way	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 successful	advmod
6	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 defying	mark
9	defying	defy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 way	acl
10	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 defying	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bent	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bent	cc
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 boy	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 boy	nummod
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bent	obl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bent	nsubj
17	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 way	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 looked	cc
19	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bent	conj
20	through	through	ADP	_	22 legs	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 legs	nmod:poss
22	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 looked	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	leaf	quite successful way		tree rules
2	defy	gerund	quite successful way not said here	wolves		tree rules
3	bend	past	wolves = wolf		as one boy	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	past	wolves = wolf not said here		through wolves's legs	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through leg=Theme

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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