Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 46

But undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw.

Who acts: grimmest part · What happens: be · To what, where: iron claw

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 (grimmest part), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 claw	cc
2	undoubtedly	undoubtedly	ADV	_	5 part	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 part	det
4	grimmest	grim	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 part	amod
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 claw	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 part	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 claw	cop
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 claw	nmod:poss
10	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 claw	compound
11	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 claw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the grimmest part of man	man's iron claw					tree rules

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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