Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 187

“All look your best,” Peter warned them; “first impressions are awfully important.”

Who acts: Peter, first impressions · What happens: look, warn, be · To what, where: best, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

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, first impressions), 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	_	3 look	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 look	advmod
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 best	nmod:poss
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 look	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
8	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 warned	nsubj
9	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 look	parataxis
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 warned	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 important	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 important	punct
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 impressions	amod
14	impressions	impression	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 important	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 important	cop
16	awfully	awfully	ADV	_	17 important	advmod
17	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 look	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	present		your best			tree rules
2	warn speech: warn	past	Peter		eyes = eye		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	is in a quote	present	first impressions			awfully, important 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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