Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 63
He boasted that he had gone walking for the good of his health.
Who acts: sort · What happens: boast, go, walk
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 (sort), 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 | 2 boasted | nsubj |
| 2 | boasted | boast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 gone | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | aux |
| 6 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 boasted | advcl |
| 7 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 gone | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 good | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 good | det |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 walking | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 health | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 health | nmod:poss |
| 13 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 good | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 boasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boast speech: other | past | sort | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | sort | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | walk | gerund | sort not said here | for the good | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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