Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 230

Had it been so with Peter at that moment I would admit it.

Who acts: I · What happens: have, be, admit · To what, where: sinking

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 (I), 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	Had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Had	obj
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 so	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	1 Had	conj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 Peter	case
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Had	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 moment	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 moment	det
9	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Had	obl
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 admit	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 admit	aux
12	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 moment	acl:relcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 admit	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past		sinking	moment	with Peter	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	is	participle				so property	tree rules
3	admit speech: other	would	I	sinking			vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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