Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 188
He was glad no one asked him what first impressions are; they were all too busy looking their best.
Who acts: Peter, one, first impressions, impressions · What happens: be, ask, look · To what, where: Peter · 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, one, first impressions, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 glad | cop |
| 3 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 glad | ccomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 asked | iobj |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 asked | ccomp |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 impressions | amod |
| 10 | impressions | impression | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 what | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | cop |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 looking | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 looking | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 looking | aux |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 looking | advmod |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 busy | advmod |
| 17 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 looking | amod |
| 18 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 best | amod |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 best | nmod:poss |
| 20 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 glad | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Peter | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | no one | Peter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | first impressions | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | look | past · progressive | impressions = impression | all property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | be | Peter not said here | 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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