Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 163

Against such fearful evidence it was not their belief in him that he needed, it was his own.

Who acts: evidence, codfish · What happens: not be, need, be · To what, where: belief

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 (evidence, codfish), 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	Against	against	ADP	_	4 evidence	case
2	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 evidence	amod
3	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 evidence	amod
4	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 own	obl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 belief	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 belief	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 belief	advmod
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 belief	nmod:poss
9	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 evidence	parataxis
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 belief	nmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 needed	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 needed	nsubj
14	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 belief	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 evidence	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 own	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 own	cop
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 own	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 own	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	evidence	men's belief	in codfish	tree rules
2	need	past	codfish	men's belief not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot belief=Theme
3	is	past	evidence		against such fearful evidence; own 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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