Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 31

Of course it was trying, but you simply had to follow his lead, and if you could prove to him that you were getting loose for your tree he let you stodge.

Who acts: course, you, make · What happens: try, have, follow, prove, get, let · To what, where: lead, make, you

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (course, you, make), 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	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	5 trying	advmod
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 trying	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trying	aux
5	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
9	simply	simply	ADV	_	10 had	advmod
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trying	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 follow	mark
12	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	xcomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 lead	nmod:poss
14	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 follow	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 prove	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 prove	cc
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 prove	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 prove	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 prove	aux
20	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 follow	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 prove	obl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 getting	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 getting	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 getting	aux
26	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 prove	advcl
27	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 getting	xcomp
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 tree	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 tree	nmod:poss
30	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 loose	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 let	nsubj
32	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 tree	acl:relcl
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 let	obj
34	stodge	stodge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 let	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 trying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	course				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
2	have	past	you			simply property	tree rules
3	follow	to-infinitive	you not said here	make's lead			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lead=Theme
4	prove a condition, not said to happen	could	you		make		vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer
5	get	past · progressive	you			loose property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	let	past	make	you			tree rules
7	stodge	infinitive	you 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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