Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 26

It is written that the noble savage must never express surprise in the presence of the white.

Who acts: noble savage · What happens: write, not express · To what, where: phalanx, surprise, presence

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 (noble savage), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 written	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 written	aux:pass
3	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 express	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 savage	det
6	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 savage	amod
7	savage	savage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 express	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 express	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 express	advmod
10	express	express	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 written	advcl
11	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 express	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 presence	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 presence	det
14	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 express	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 white	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 white	det
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 presence	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 written	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present · passive		phalanx					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	not express	must	the noble savage	surprise		the presence of the white			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surprise=Theme

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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