Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 34
Turley fell to the tomahawk of the terrible Panther, who ultimately cut a way through the pirates with Tiger Lily and a small remnant of the tribe.
Who acts: Turley, terrible Panther · What happens: fall, cut · To what, where: way, pirates
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 (Turley, terrible Panther), 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 | Turley | Turley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 tomahawk | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tomahawk | det |
| 5 | tomahawk | tomahawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Panther | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Panther | det |
| 8 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Panther | amod |
| 9 | Panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tomahawk | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cut | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 cut | nsubj |
| 12 | ultimately | ultimately | ADV | _ | 13 cut | advmod |
| 13 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Panther | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cut | obj |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 pirates | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pirates | det |
| 18 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cut | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 Tiger | case |
| 20 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 pirates | nmod |
| 21 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Tiger | flat |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 remnant | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 remnant | det |
| 24 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 remnant | amod |
| 25 | remnant | remnant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Tiger | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 tribe | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tribe | det |
| 28 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 remnant | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Turley | to the tomahawk of the terrible Panther | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to tomahawk=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut | past | the terrible Panther | a way | the pirates with Tiger and a small remnant of the tribe | ultimately property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product |
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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