Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 61

“If the redskins have won,” he said, “they will beat the tom-tom; it is always their sign of victory.”

Who acts: Peter, redskins, tom · What happens: win, say, beat, be · To what, where: redskins, tom tom, sign · 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 (Peter, redskins, tom), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 won	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 redskins	det
4	redskins	redskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 won	nsubj:pass
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 won	aux
6	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 won	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 won	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 beat	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 beat	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 beat	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 beat	aux
15	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tom	det
17	tom	tom	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tom	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 tom	punct
19	tom	tom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 beat	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 sign	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sign	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 sign	cop
23	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	25 sign	advmod
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sign	nmod:poss
25	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 victory	case
27	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sign	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	win a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the redskins		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	Peter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	beat in a quote	future	redskins = redskin	the tom tom		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tom=Theme
4	is a in a quote	present	tom	redskins's sign	of victory; always 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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