Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 43

The night’s work was not yet over, for it was not the redskins he had come out to destroy; they were but the bees to be smoked, so that he should get at the honey.

Who acts: work, face, redskins, night · What happens: not be, come out, destroy, be, smoke, get · To what, where: redskins, bees, honey

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 (work, face, redskins, night), 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	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 work	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 night	case
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 over	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 over	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 over	advmod
7	yet	yet	ADV	_	8 over	advmod
8	over	over	ADV	_	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 redskins	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	15 redskins	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 redskins	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 redskins	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 redskins	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 redskins	det
15	redskins	redskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 over	conj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 come	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 redskins	acl
19	out	out	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 destroy	mark
21	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 come	advcl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 bees	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bees	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 bees	cop
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 bees	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bees	det
27	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 over	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	30 smoked	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 smoked	aux:pass
30	smoked	smoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 bees	acl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 get	punct
32	so	so	ADV	_	36 get	advmod
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 get	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 get	nsubj
35	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 get	aux
36	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 bees	parataxis
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 honey	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 honey	det
39	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 get	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 over	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the night's work			yet	over property	tree rules
2	not is	past	work				for the redskins	tree rules
3	come out	past · perfect	face	the redskins not said here			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient redskin=Result
4	destroy	to-infinitive	face not said here					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	redskins = redskin	the bees				tree rules
6	smoke	to-infinitive · passive	the night's work not said here					vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»
7	get	should	face		the honey			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
8	work		the night					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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