Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 21

Hunched up in their ropes they might indeed be rolled down hill like barrels, but most of the way lay through a morass.

Who acts: most · What happens: hunch up, roll down, lie · To what, where: ropes, captives, morass

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 (most), 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	Hunched	hunch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Hunched	compound:prt
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 ropes	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ropes	nmod:poss
5	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hunched	obl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rolled	nsubj:pass
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 rolled	aux
8	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	10 rolled	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 rolled	aux:pass
10	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Hunched	parataxis
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 rolled	compound:prt
12	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rolled	obl
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 barrels	case
14	barrels	barrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hill	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lay	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 lay	cc
17	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 lay	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 way	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 way	det
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 most	nmod
21	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hunched	conj
22	through	through	ADP	_	24 morass	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 morass	det
24	morass	morass	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lay	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Hunched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hunch up	participle			captives's ropes		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rope=Location
2	roll down	might · passive		captives = captive		hill like barrels obl; indeed property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent
3	lie	past	most of the way		a morass		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through morass=Location

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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