Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 17

Here dreaming, though wide-awake, of the exquisite tortures to which they were to put him at break of day, those confiding savages were found by the treacherous Hook.

Who acts: treacherous Hook, Piccaninnies · What happens: dream, put, confide, find, break · To what, where: Hook, break, confiding savages, day

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 (treacherous Hook, Piccaninnies), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 dreaming	advmod
2	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 found	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 awake	punct
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 awake	mark
5	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 awake	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 wide	punct
7	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dreaming	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tortures	punct
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 tortures	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tortures	det
11	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tortures	amod
12	tortures	torture	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 awake	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 put	obl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 put	aux
17	to	to	PART	_	18 put	mark
18	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tortures	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 break	case
21	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 day	case
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 break	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dreaming	punct
25	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 savages	det
26	confiding	confide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 savages	amod
27	savages	savage	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 found	nsubj:pass
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 found	aux:pass
29	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
30	by	by	ADP	_	33 Hook	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Hook	det
32	treacherous	treacherous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Hook	amod
33	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 found	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dream	gerund	the treacherous Hook not said here		here		vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	put	past	Piccaninnies = piccaninny	Hook	break of day	to the exquisite tortures	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme at break=Destination
3	confide speech: other	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	find	past · passive	the treacherous Hook	that confiding savages			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
5	break			day			nom break «event transitive»: of=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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