Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 28

Then, indeed, the tradition gallantly upheld, they seized their weapons, and the air was torn with the war-cry; but it was now too late.

Who acts: traditions, air · What happens: uphold, seize, tear, be · To what, where: tradition, weapons, air

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 (traditions, air), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 upheld	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 tradition	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 indeed	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tradition	det
6	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 upheld	nsubj:pass
7	gallantly	gallantly	ADV	_	8 upheld	advmod
8	upheld	uphold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seized	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seized	nsubj
11	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 upheld	parataxis
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 weapons	nmod:poss
13	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 seized	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 torn	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 torn	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 air	det
17	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 torn	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 torn	aux:pass
19	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 seized	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	24 cry	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cry	det
22	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cry	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 war	punct
24	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 torn	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 late	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 late	cc
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 late	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 late	cop
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 late	advmod
30	too	too	ADV	_	31 late	advmod
31	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 upheld	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 upheld	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	uphold	participle · passive		the tradition	then	gallantly property	tree rules
2	seize	past	traditions = tradition	traditions's weapons			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme
3	tear	past · passive		the air		with the war cry	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with cry=Instrument
4	is	past	air		now	late property	tree rules

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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