Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 12

Always when he said, “Peter Pan has spoken,” it meant that they must now shut up, and they accepted it humbly in that spirit; but they were by no means so respectful to the other boys, whom they looked upon as just ordinary braves.

Who acts: Tiger, it, pirates · What happens: say, speak, mean, shut up, accept, be · To what, where: Peter, way, spirit, other boys · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiger, it, pirates), 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	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 said	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 said	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spoken	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 spoken	punct
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 spoken	nsubj:pass
8	Pan	Pan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Peter	flat
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 spoken	aux
10	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spoken	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 meant	nsubj
14	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 shut	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 shut	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 shut	aux
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 shut	advmod
19	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 meant	ccomp
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 shut	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 accepted	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 accepted	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 accepted	nsubj
24	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 meant	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 accepted	obj
26	humbly	humbly	ADV	_	24 accepted	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 spirit	case
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 spirit	det
29	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 accepted	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 means	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 means	cc
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 means	nsubj
33	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 means	parataxis
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 no	case
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 were	obl
36	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 respectful	advmod
38	respectful	respectful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 means	xcomp
39	to	to	ADP	_	42 boys	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 boys	det
41	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 boys	amod
42	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 respectful	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 looked	punct
44	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 looked	obj
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 looked	nsubj
46	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 boys	acl:relcl
47	upon	upon	ADP	_	51 braves	case
48	as	as	ADP	_	51 braves	case
49	just	just	ADV	_	51 braves	advmod
50	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 braves	amod
51	braves	brave	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 looked	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Tiger				always property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	speak speech: other in a quote	present · perfect · passive		Peter				tree rules
3	mean	past	it					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	shut up	must	pirates = pirate			now		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	accept	past	pirates = pirate	way	that spirit		humbly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	be	past					by no	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by no=Location
7	mean	present	pirates = pirate				respectful property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
8	look	past	pirates = pirate	the other boys			upon ordinary braves	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme whom=Attribute

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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