Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 97
“It was one of those boys you hate.
Who acts: island, you · What happens: be, hate · To what, where: one, boys
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 (island, you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 one | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | cop |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 boys | case |
| 6 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 boys | det |
| 7 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 hate | nsubj |
| 9 | hate | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 boys | acl:relcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | island | one | of that boys | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hate in a quote | present | you | that boys not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus |
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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