Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 100

He did this because there is a saying in the Neverland that, every time you breathe, a grown-up dies; and Peter was killing them off vindictively as fast as possible.

Who acts: dread, saying, you, Peter · What happens: do, be, breathe, grow up, die, kill off · To what, where: this, time, breaths

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dread, saying, you, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 did	obj
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 is	mark
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 is	expl
6	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 saying	det
8	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 is	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 Neverland	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Neverland	det
11	Neverland	Neverland	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 saying	appos
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 Neverland	fixed
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 time	punct
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Neverland	appos
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 breathe	nsubj
17	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 time	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dies	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 dies	det
20	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 dies	nsubj
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 up	punct
22	up	up	ADP	_	20 grown	compound:prt
23	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Neverland	parataxis
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 killing	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 killing	cc
26	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 killing	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 killing	aux
28	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 did	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 killing	obj
30	off	off	ADP	_	28 killing	compound:prt
31	vindictively	vindictively	ADV	_	33 fast	advmod
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 fast	advmod
33	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 killing	advmod
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 possible	mark
35	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fast	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	dread	this			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
2	be	present	a saying		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	breathe	present	you	every time not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme
4	grow up	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	die	present					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	kill off	past · progressive	Peter	breaths = breath		fast property	vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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