Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 252
They were not very anxious, because they had such faith in Peter.
Who acts: boys · What happens: not be, have · To what, where: such faith, 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 (boys), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 anxious | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 anxious | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 anxious | advmod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 anxious | advmod |
| 5 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 had | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 anxious | conj |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 faith | amod |
| 11 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Peter | case |
| 13 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 faith | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 anxious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | boys = boy | anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | boys = boy | such faith | Peter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=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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