Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 55

For one thing he despised all mothers except Wendy, and for another he was the only boy on the island who could neither write nor spell; not the smallest word.

Who acts: number, island · What happens: despise, be, write, spell · To what, where: mothers, only boy, island

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 (number, island), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 thing	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thing	nummod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 despised	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 despised	nsubj
5	despised	despise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 mothers	det
7	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 despised	obj
8	except	except	ADP	_	9 Wendy	case
9	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mothers	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 boy	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 boy	cc
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 another	case
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 boy	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 boy	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 boy	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boy	det
17	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 boy	amod
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 despised	obl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 island	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 island	det
21	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 boy	nmod
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 write	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 write	aux
24	neither	neither	ADV	_	25 write	advmod
25	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 island	acl:relcl
26	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	27 spell	cc
27	spell	spell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 write	conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 word	punct
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 word	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 word	det
31	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 word	amod
32	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 despised	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 despised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	despise	past	number	all mothers		for one thing; except Wendy; the smallest word obl	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus for thing=Attribute
2	is a	past	number	the only boy	the island	for another	tree rules
3	write	could	the island			neither property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	spell	infinitive	the island not said here				vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=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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