Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 3

The white men have in the meantime made a rude stockade on the summit of yonder undulating ground, at the foot of which a stream runs, for it is destruction to be too far from water.

Who acts: white men, meantime, summit, stream · What happens: have, make, undulate, run, be · To what, where: rude stockade, summit, ground, water

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 (white men, meantime, summit, stream), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 men	amod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 made	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 meantime	det
7	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 have	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stockade	det
10	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stockade	amod
11	stockade	stockade	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 summit	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 summit	det
14	summit	summit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 undulating	mark
16	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	17 undulating	advmod
17	undulating	undulate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 summit	acl
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 undulating	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 foot	punct
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 foot	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 foot	det
22	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 runs	obl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 stream	det
26	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 runs	nsubj
27	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 foot	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 destruction	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	32 destruction	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 destruction	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 destruction	cop
32	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 runs	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	36 far	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 far	cop
35	too	too	ADV	_	36 far	advmod
36	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 destruction	advmod
37	from	from	ADP	_	38 water	case
38	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 far	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	the white men				tree rules
2	make	past	the meantime	a rude stockade	the summit	at the foot	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stockade=Product
3	undulate	gerund	the summit not said here	ground		yonder property	vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ground=Theme
4	run	present	a stream			of the foot	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of which=Trajectory
5	is	present	stream			for destruction	tree rules
6	is	to-infinitive			water	far 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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