Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 231
After all, he was the only man that the Sea-Cook had feared.
Who acts: Peter, only man · What happens: be, fear · To what, where: only man, Sea Cook
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 (Peter, only man), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 all | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 man | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 all | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 man | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 feared | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Cook | det |
| 11 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Cook | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sea | punct |
| 13 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 feared | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 feared | aux |
| 15 | feared | fear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 man | acl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Peter | the only man | after all | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fear | past · perfect · passive | the only man not said here | the Sea Cook | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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