Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 11
The Piccaninnies, on their part, trusted implicitly to his honour, and their whole action of the night stands out in marked contrast to his.
Who acts: Piccaninnies, paleface, night · What happens: trust, stand out, mark, honour, act · To what, where: Piccaninnies, honour, marked contrast
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 (Piccaninnies, paleface, night), 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 | 2 Piccaninnies | det |
| 2 | Piccaninnies | piccaninny | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stands | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 part | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 part | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 part | nmod:poss |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Piccaninnies | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 trusted | punct |
| 8 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Piccaninnies | acl |
| 9 | implicitly | implicitly | ADV | _ | 12 honour | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 honour | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 honour | nmod:poss |
| 12 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trusted | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stands | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stands | cc |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 action | nmod:poss |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 action | amod |
| 17 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stands | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 night | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 night | det |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 action | nmod |
| 21 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 stands | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 contrast | case |
| 24 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 contrast | amod |
| 25 | contrast | contrast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stands | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 his | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 stands | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | participle | the Piccaninnies and Piccaninnies's part not said here | paleface's honour | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to honour=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | stand out | present | the Piccaninnies and Piccaninnies's part | marked contrast | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in contrast=Location | ||||
| 3 | mark | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | honour | paleface | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | act | the night | nom action «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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