Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 65
He was less sorry than Wendy for Tiger Lily: it was two against one that angered him, and he meant to save her.
Who acts: Peter, tragedy · What happens: be, anger, mean, save · To what, where: Peter, Wendy
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, tragedy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sorry | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorry | cop |
| 3 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 sorry | advmod |
| 4 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 Wendy | case |
| 6 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sorry | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 Tiger | case |
| 8 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sorry | obl |
| 9 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Tiger | flat |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 one | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | cop |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 one | nummod |
| 14 | against | against | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 sorry | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 angered | nsubj |
| 17 | angered | anger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | acl:relcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 angered | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 meant | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 meant | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 meant | nsubj |
| 22 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorry | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 save | mark |
| 24 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 meant | xcomp |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 save | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Peter | than Wendy; for Tiger; less, sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | tragedy | against two one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | anger | past | Peter | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | mean | past | Peter | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | save not said to happen | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | Wendy | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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