Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 295
Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: last
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), 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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 boys | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 boys | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 boys | advmod |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 boys | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 boys | case |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 boys | amod |
| 7 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 afraid | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 afraid | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 afraid | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 afraid | cop |
| 12 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 boys | advcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 afraid | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 boys | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Peter | like other boys | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Peter | last | afraid property | tree rules |
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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