Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 11

They were tied to prevent their flying away, doubled up with their knees close to their ears; and for the trussing of them the black pirate had cut a rope into nine equal pieces.

Who acts: others · What happens: tie, prevent, fly away, double up, cut · To what, where: others, black pirate, nine equal pieces

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others), 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	3 tied	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tied	aux:pass
3	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 prevent	mark
5	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tied	advcl
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 flying	nsubj
7	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 prevent	xcomp
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 flying	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 doubled	punct
10	doubled	double	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 flying	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 doubled	compound:prt
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 knees	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 knees	nmod:poss
14	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 doubled	obl
15	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 knees	amod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 ears	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 ears	nmod:poss
18	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 close	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 cut	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cut	cc
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 trussing	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 trussing	det
23	trussing	trussing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cut	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 trussing	nmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 pirate	det
27	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 pirate	amod
28	pirate	pirate	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cut	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 cut	aux
30	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tied	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 rope	det
32	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cut	obj
33	into	into	ADP	_	36 pieces	case
34	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 pieces	nummod
35	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 pieces	amod
36	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 cut	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tie	past · passive		others = other			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	prevent	to-infinitive					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality
3	fly away	gerund	others = other			away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	double up	participle	others = other not said here			with others's knees	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with knee=Instrument
5	cut	past · perfect · passive		the black pirate	nine equal pieces	for the trussing of others	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Beneficiary rope=Product for trussing=Asset

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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