Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 55
They wriggled uncomfortably, for they knew he would not scruple to ram them down with poles.
Who acts: eyes, Peter · What happens: wriggle, know, not scruple, ram down · To what, where: eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (eyes, Peter), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wriggled | nsubj |
| 2 | wriggled | wriggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | uncomfortably | uncomfortably | ADV | _ | 2 wriggled | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 knew | punct |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 knew | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 knew | nsubj |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wriggled | parataxis |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 scruple | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 scruple | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 scruple | advmod |
| 11 | scruple | scruple | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 knew | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 ram | mark |
| 13 | ram | ram | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 scruple | xcomp |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ram | obj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 ram | compound:prt |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 poles | case |
| 17 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ram | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wriggled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wriggle | past | eyes = eye | uncomfortably property | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | know | past | eyes = eye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not scruple | would | Peter | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | ram down | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | eyes = eye | with poles | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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