Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 1

The pirate attack had been a complete surprise: a sure proof that the unscrupulous Hook had conducted it improperly, for to surprise redskins fairly is beyond the wit of the white man.

Who acts: pirate attack, sure proof · What happens: be, conduct, surprise · To what, where: complete surprise, unscrupulous Hook, redskins

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pirate attack, sure proof), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 attack	det
2	pirate	pirate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 attack	compound
3	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 surprise	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 surprise	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 surprise	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 surprise	det
7	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 surprise	amod
8	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 proof	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 proof	det
11	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 proof	amod
12	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wit	nsubj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 conducted	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Hook	det
15	unscrupulous	unscrupulous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Hook	amod
16	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 conducted	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 conducted	aux
18	conducted	conduct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 proof	acl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 conducted	obj
20	improperly	improperly	ADV	_	18 conducted	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 surprise	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 surprise	case
23	to	to	PART	_	24 surprise	mark
24	surprise	surprise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 conducted	conj
25	redskins	redskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 surprise	obj
26	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	25 redskins	advmod
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 wit	cop
28	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	30 wit	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wit	det
30	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 surprise	parataxis
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 man	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 man	det
33	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 man	amod
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wit	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 surprise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past · perfect	the pirate attack	a complete surprise		tree rules
2	conduct	past · perfect · passive	a sure proof not said here	the unscrupulous Hook	improperly property	vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme it=Beneficiary
3	surprise	to-infinitive	a sure proof not said here	redskins		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus redskin=Experiencer
4	is	present	a sure proof		beyond the wit; of the white man	tree rules

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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