Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 12

All went well until Slightly’s turn came, when he was found to be like those irritating parcels that use up all the string in going round and leave no tags with which to tie a knot.

Who acts: turn, irritating parcels · What happens: go, come, find, be, use up, go round · To what, where: turn, string, tags, knot

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 (turn, irritating parcels), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 went	advmod
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 went	advmod
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
5	Slightly	slightly	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Slightly	case
7	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 found	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 found	aux:pass
13	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 came	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	19 parcels	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 parcels	cop
16	like	like	ADP	_	19 parcels	case
17	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 parcels	det
18	irritating	irritating	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 parcels	amod
19	parcels	parcel	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 found	obj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 use	nsubj
21	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 parcels	acl:relcl
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 use	compound:prt
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 string	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 string	det
25	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 use	obl:unmarked
26	in	in	SCONJ	_	27 going	mark
27	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 use	advcl
28	round	round	ADV	_	27 going	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 leave	cc
30	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 use	conj
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 tags	det
32	tags	tag	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 leave	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 which	case
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 tie	obl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 tie	mark
36	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 tags	acl:relcl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 knot	det
38	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tie	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past			well property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	turn		slightly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	past · passive		turn		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	is	to-infinitive			like that irritating parcels	tree rules
5	use up	present	that irritating parcels	all string		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	go round	gerund	that irritating parcels not said here		round property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	leave	infinitive	that irritating parcels not said here	no tags		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tag=Theme
8	tie	to-infinitive	that irritating parcels not said here	a knot	with no tags	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent knot=Patient with which=Co-Patient

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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