Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 8

The cry is answered by other braves; and some of them do it even better than the coyotes, who are not very good at it.

Who acts: other braves, some, coyotes · What happens: answer, do, not be · To what, where: cry

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 (other braves, some, coyotes), 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 cry	det
2	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	aux:pass
4	answered	answer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 braves	case
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 braves	amod
7	braves	brave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 answered	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 do	cc
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 do	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 some	nmod
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 do	obj
15	even	even	ADV	_	16 better	advmod
16	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 do	advmod
17	than	than	ADP	_	19 coyotes	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 coyotes	det
19	coyotes	coyote	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 better	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 good	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 good	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 good	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 good	advmod
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 good	advmod
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 coyotes	acl:relcl
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 good	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	present · passive	other braves	the cry		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality
2	do	present	some	cry	well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	not is	present	the coyotes		at coyote; good 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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