Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 118

He would keep no girl in the Neverland against her will.

Who acts: first · What happens: keep · To what, where: girl, Neverland

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 (first), 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	3 keep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 Neverland	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Neverland	det
8	Neverland	Neverland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obl
9	against	against	ADP	_	11 will	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 will	nmod:poss
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	advcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	first	no girl		the Neverland			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent girl=Theme in neverland=Location

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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