Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 237
Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter.
Who acts: pain · What happens: be, pain · To what, where: this
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 (pain), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 pain | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pain | det |
| 3 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dazed | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 pain | nmod |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 unfairness | cc |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 unfairness | nmod:poss |
| 8 | unfairness | unfairness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pain | conj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dazed | cop |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 dazed | nsubj |
| 11 | dazed | daze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 dazed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 dazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the pain of this but pain's unfairness | daze property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pain | this | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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