Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 161
“It is lowering to our pride.”
Who acts: face, our · What happens: lower, pride · To what, where: pride
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, our), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lowering | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lowering | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lowering | aux |
| 4 | lowering | lower | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 pride | case |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pride | nmod:poss |
| 7 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lowering | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lowering | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lowering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lower in a quote | present · progressive | face | our pride | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to pride=Destination | ||||
| 2 | pride in a quote | our | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=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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