Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 223
But there was one who did not fear him: there was one prepared to enter that circle.
Who acts: one · What happens: be, not fear, prepare, enter · To what, where: one, claw, circle
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 (one), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 one | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | cop |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 fear | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fear | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 fear | advmod |
| 8 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 one | acl:relcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fear | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 was | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | parataxis |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 was | nsubj |
| 14 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 one | acl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 enter | mark |
| 16 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 prepared | xcomp |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 circle | det |
| 18 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 enter | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | one | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not fear | past · do-support | claw | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be | past | one | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | prepare | participle | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | ||||||
| 5 | enter not said to happen | to-infinitive | that circle | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme circle=Destination |
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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