Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 240
Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly.
Who acts: first time · What happens: affect, treat · To what, where: child, Peter
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 (first time), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 affected | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 affected | aux:pass |
| 4 | affected | affect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 affected | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 affected | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 treated | aux:pass |
| 11 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 time | acl:relcl |
| 12 | unfairly | unfairly | ADV | _ | 11 treated | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 affected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affect | present · passive | every child | time | thus property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | treat | present · passive | the first time not said here | Peter | unfairly property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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