Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 15

They found only one hillock with a stream at its base, so that Hook had no choice; here he must establish himself and wait for just before the dawn.

Who acts: Piccaninnies, Hook · What happens: find, have, establish, wait · To what, where: one hillock, choice, Hook

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, Hook), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hillock	nummod
5	hillock	hillock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 stream	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stream	det
8	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 base	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 base	nmod:poss
11	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stream	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
13	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 had	mark
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 so	fixed
15	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 choice	det
18	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 establish	punct
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 establish	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 establish	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 establish	aux
23	establish	establish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 found	parataxis
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 establish	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 wait	cc
26	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 establish	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	31 dawn	case
28	just	just	ADV	_	31 dawn	advmod
29	before	before	ADP	_	31 dawn	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 dawn	det
31	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wait	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Piccaninnies = piccaninny	one hillock			with a stream at stream's base	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hillock=Topic
2	have	past	Hook	no choice				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient
3	establish	must	Hook	Hook	here			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
4	wait	infinitive	Hook not said here			dawn		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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