Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 56

He was above all that sort of thing.

Who acts: number · What happens: be · To what, where: sort

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), 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	6 sort	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sort	cop
3	above	above	ADP	_	6 sort	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 sort	det:predet
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 sort	det
6	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 thing	case
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sort	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sort	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	number			all sort		of thing	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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