Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 67
There was almost nothing he could not do, and he now imitated the voice of Hook.
Who acts: nothing, Peter · What happens: be, not do, imitate · To what, where: voice
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 (nothing, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 4 nothing | advmod |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 do | advmod |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 imitated | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 imitated | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 imitated | nsubj |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 imitated | advmod |
| 13 | imitated | imitate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 imitated | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Hook | case |
| 17 | Hook | Hook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 voice | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not do | could | Peter | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | imitate | past | Peter | the voice of Hook | now | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=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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