Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 64

For several suns these were the most novel of all adventures to him; and John and Michael had to pretend to be delighted also; otherwise he would have treated them severely.

Who acts: these, John, novel · What happens: be, have, pretend, treat · To what, where: novel, 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 (these, John, novel), 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 suns	case
2	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 suns	amod
3	suns	sun	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 novel	obl
4	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 novel	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 novel	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 novel	det
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 novel	advmod
8	novel	novel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 adventures	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 adventures	det
11	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 novel	nmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 adventures	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 John	cc
16	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 had	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Michael	cc
18	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 John	conj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 novel	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 pretend	mark
21	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	xcomp
22	to	to	PART	_	24 delighted	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 delighted	cop
24	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pretend	advcl
25	also	also	ADV	_	24 delighted	advmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 treated	punct
27	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	31 treated	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 treated	nsubj:pass
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 treated	aux
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 treated	aux
31	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 novel	acl
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 treated	obj
33	severely	severely	ADV	_	31 treated	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 novel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	these	the novel	for several suns; of all adventures to sort	tree rules
2	have	past	John and Michael			tree rules
3	pretend	to-infinitive	John and Michael not said here			tree rules
4	is	to-infinitive	John and Michael not said here		delighted property	tree rules
5	treat	would · perfect · passive	the novel not said here	sort	otherwise, severely property	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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