Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 73

It was a sanguinary affair, and especially interesting as showing one of Peter’s peculiarities, which was that in the middle of a fight he would suddenly change sides.

Who acts: brush, peculiarities, Gulch · What happens: be, show, change · To what, where: sanguinary affair, one, middle, sides

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 (brush, peculiarities, Gulch), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 affair	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 affair	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 affair	det
4	sanguinary	sanguinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 affair	amod
5	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 interesting	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 interesting	cc
8	especially	especially	ADV	_	9 interesting	advmod
9	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 affair	amod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 showing	mark
11	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 interesting	advcl
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 showing	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 peculiarities	case
14	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 peculiarities	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 Peter	case
16	peculiarities	peculiarity	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 middle	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 middle	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 middle	cop
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 middle	mark
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 middle	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 middle	det
23	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 peculiarities	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 fight	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fight	det
26	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 middle	nmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 change	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 change	aux
29	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	30 change	advmod
30	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 fight	acl:relcl
31	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 change	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 affair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	brush	a sanguinary affair			tree rules
2	show	gerund	brush not said here	one of Peter's peculiarities			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient
3	is	past	Peter's peculiarities		the middle	of a fight	tree rules
4	change	would	Gulch	sides		suddenly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient

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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