Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 62
For the moment, however, it constitutes their chief danger.
Who acts: fact · What happens: constitute · To what, where: chief danger
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 (fact), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 constitutes | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 moment | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 constitutes | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 constitutes | nsubj |
| 8 | constitutes | constitute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 danger | nmod:poss |
| 10 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 danger | compound |
| 11 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 constitutes | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 constitutes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | constitute | present | fact | sound's chief danger | moment | however property | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme danger=Pivot |
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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