Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 13

The pirates kicked him in their rage, just as you kick the parcel (though in fairness you should kick the string); and strange to say it was Hook who told them to belay their violence.

Who acts: pirates, you, pirate, Hook, others · What happens: kick, say, be, tell, belay, rage · To what, where: turn, rage, parcel, string, fairness, Hook · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (pirates, you, pirate, Hook), 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 pirates	det
2	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kicked	nsubj
3	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kicked	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 rage	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 rage	nmod:poss
7	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kicked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kick	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	12 kick	advmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 kick	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 kick	nsubj
12	kick	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 kicked	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 parcel	det
14	parcel	parcel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kick	obj
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 kick	punct
16	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 kick	mark
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 fairness	case
18	fairness	fairness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kick	obl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 kick	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 kick	aux
21	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 kick	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 string	det
23	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kick	obj
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 kick	punct
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 strange	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 strange	cc
27	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kicked	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 say	mark
29	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 strange	csubj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 Hook	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 Hook	cop
32	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 say	obj
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 told	nsubj
34	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 Hook	acl:relcl
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 told	iobj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 belay	mark
37	belay	belay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 told	xcomp
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 violence	nmod:poss
39	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 belay	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kicked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	kick	past	the pirates	turn		others's rage	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in rage=Location
2	kick	present	you	the parcel			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent parcel=Patient
3	kick	should	you	the string		fairness	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent string=Patient in fairness=Location
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	pirate	Hook			tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	past	Hook		parcels = parcel		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
7	belay not said to happen	to-infinitive	Hook not said here	parcels's violence			tree rules
8	rage		others = other				nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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