Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 20
Around the brave Tiger Lily were a dozen of her stoutest warriors, and they suddenly saw the perfidious pirates bearing down upon them.
Who acts: masters, perfidious pirates · What happens: be, see, bear down · To what, where: dozen, brave Tiger Lily, perfidious pirates
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 (masters, perfidious pirates), 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 | Around | around | ADP | _ | 5 Lily | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Lily | det |
| 3 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Lily | amod |
| 4 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Lily | compound |
| 5 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 dozen | obl |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dozen | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dozen | det |
| 8 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 saw | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 warriors | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 warriors | nmod:poss |
| 11 | stoutest | stout | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 warriors | amod |
| 12 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dozen | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 17 saw | advmod |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pirates | det |
| 19 | perfidious | perfidious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pirates | amod |
| 20 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 saw | obj |
| 21 | bearing | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 pirates | acl |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 bearing | advmod |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bearing | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a dozen | the brave Tiger Lily | of thought's stoutest warriors | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | past | masters = master | the perfidious pirates | suddenly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pirate=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | bear down | gerund | the perfidious pirates not said here | upon masters = master; down property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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