Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 66

An easy way would have been to wait until the pirates had gone, but he was never one to choose the easy way.

Who acts: pirates, Peter · What happens: wait, be, not be, choose · To what, where: one, easy way

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 (pirates, 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 way	det
2	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 way	amod
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gone	obl:unmarked
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 gone	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 gone	cop
7	to	to	PART	_	8 wait	mark
8	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 gone	advcl
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 gone	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pirates	det
11	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 gone	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	aux
13	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 one	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 one	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 one	cop
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 one	advmod
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 gone	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 choose	mark
21	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 one	acl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 way	det
23	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 way	amod
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 choose	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	to-infinitive	the pirates not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	would · perfect	the pirates		a easy way obl:unmarked; go property	tree rules
3	not is a	past	Peter	one		tree rules
4	choose	to-infinitive		the easy way		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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