Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 31
Not all unavenged did they die, for with Lean Wolf fell Alf Mason, to disturb the Spanish Main no more, and among others who bit the dust were Geo.
Who acts: unavenged, Lean, others · What happens: die, fall, disturb, bite, be · To what, where: Alf Mason, Spanish Main, dust, Geo
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 (unavenged, Lean, others), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 unavenged | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 unavenged | advmod |
| 3 | unavenged | unavenged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 die | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 die | aux |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 die | nsubj |
| 6 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 fell | mark |
| 9 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 12 fell | mark |
| 10 | Lean | Lean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Lean | flat |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 die | parataxis |
| 13 | Alf | Alf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Mason | compound |
| 14 | Mason | Mason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 disturb | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 disturb | mark |
| 17 | disturb | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 fell | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Main | det |
| 19 | Spanish | Spanish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Main | compound |
| 20 | Main | Main | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 disturb | obj |
| 21 | no | no | ADV | _ | 22 more | advmod |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 disturb | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Geo | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Geo | cc |
| 25 | among | among | ADP | _ | 26 others | case |
| 26 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 Geo | obl |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 bit | nsubj |
| 28 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 others | acl:relcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 dust | det |
| 30 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bit | obj |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 Geo | cop |
| 32 | Geo | Geo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 die | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past · do-support | unavenged | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | Lean | Alf Mason | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient mason=Result | ||||
| 3 | disturb | to-infinitive | Lean not said here | the Spanish Main | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus main=Experiencer more=Result | ||||
| 4 | bite | past | others | the dust | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | Geo | among others | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/13/31/