Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 24
They knew it; but as their father’s sons they acquitted themselves.
Who acts: masters · What happens: know, acquit · To what, where: utterance, masters
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | obj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 acquitted | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 acquitted | cc |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 sons | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sons | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 father | case |
| 10 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 acquitted | obl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 acquitted | nsubj |
| 12 | acquitted | acquit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | conj |
| 13 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 acquitted | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | masters = master | utterance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | acquit | past | masters = master | masters = master | as masters's father's sons | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer themselves=Source |
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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