Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 25

Even then they had time to gather in a phalanx that would have been hard to break had they risen quickly, but this they were forbidden to do by the traditions of their race.

Who acts: masters · What happens: have, gather, be, break, rise, forbid · To what, where: phalanx, this

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	Even	even	ADV	_	2 then	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 gather	mark
7	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 time	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 phalanx	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 phalanx	det
10	phalanx	phalanx	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 risen	obj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 hard	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 hard	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 hard	cop
15	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 risen	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 break	mark
17	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 hard	advcl
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 risen	aux
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 risen	nsubj
20	risen	rise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 phalanx	acl:relcl
21	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	20 risen	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 forbidden	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 forbidden	cc
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 forbidden	nsubj:pass
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 forbidden	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 forbidden	aux:pass
27	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 had	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 do	mark
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 forbidden	xcomp
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 traditions	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 traditions	det
32	traditions	tradition	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 do	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 race	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 race	nmod:poss
35	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 traditions	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	masters = master		a phalanx	then; time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	gather	to-infinitive	masters = master not said here					vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	would · perfect					hard property	tree rules
4	break	to-infinitive						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	rise	past · perfect	masters = master	a phalanx			quickly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme
6	forbid	past · passive		this				tree rules
7	do	to-infinitive					by the traditions of masters's race	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	race		masters = master					nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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