Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 171

Peter, seeing this to be a good idea, at once pretended that it was his own.

Who acts: Peter, idea · What happens: see, be, pretend · To what, where: this, good idea

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, idea), 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	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 idea	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Peter	punct
3	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 idea	csubj
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 seeing	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	9 idea	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 idea	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 idea	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 idea	amod
9	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pretended	punct
11	at	at	SCONJ	_	13 pretended	mark
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 pretended	advmod
13	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 idea	parataxis
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 own	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 own	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 own	cop
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 own	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pretended	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 idea	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	gerund		this		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	is a	to-infinitive	Peter	a good idea		tree rules
3	pretend	past			once property	tree rules
4	is	past	idea		own property	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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