Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 22
No more would they torture at the stake.
Who acts: masters · What happens: not torture · To what, where: stake
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), 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 | No | no | ADV | _ | 5 torture | advmod |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 torture | advmod |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 torture | aux |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 torture | nsubj |
| 5 | torture | torture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 stake | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stake | det |
| 8 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 torture | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 torture | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not torture | would | masters = master | the stake | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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