Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 53

Of course the only boy who replied to every question was Slightly, and no one could have been more hopeful of coming out first, but his answers were perfectly ridiculous, and he really came out last: a melancholy thing.

Who acts: one, answers, number · What happens: reply, be, come out, answer

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 (one, answers, number), 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	_	5 boy	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 replied	obl
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 replied	nsubj
7	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 question	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 question	det
10	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Slightly	obl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Slightly	cop
12	Slightly	slightly	ADV	_	7 replied	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hopeful	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hopeful	cc
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hopeful	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 hopeful	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 hopeful	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 hopeful	cop
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 hopeful	advmod
21	hopeful	hopeful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 replied	conj
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 coming	mark
23	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 hopeful	advcl
24	out	out	ADV	_	23 coming	advmod
25	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 coming	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 ridiculous	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 ridiculous	cc
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 answers	nmod:poss
29	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 ridiculous	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 ridiculous	cop
31	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	32 ridiculous	advmod
32	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 replied	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 came	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 came	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 came	nsubj
36	really	really	ADV	_	37 came	advmod
37	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 replied	conj
38	out	out	ADV	_	37 came	advmod
39	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 came	xcomp
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	43 thing	punct
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 thing	det
42	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 thing	compound
43	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 replied	parataxis
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past		of the only boy	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past		to every question; slightly property	tree rules
3	is	could · perfect	no one	hopeful property	tree rules
4	come out	gerund	no one not said here	first, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	is	past	number's answers	perfectly, ridiculous property	tree rules
6	come out	past	number	last, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
7	answer		number		nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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