Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 24

The children were flung into it, four stout pirates raised it on their shoulders, the others fell in behind, and singing the hateful pirate chorus the strange procession set off through the wood.

Who acts: four stout pirates, others · What happens: fling, raise, fall in, sing, set off · To what, where: children, conveyance, shoulders, hateful pirate chorus, strange procession, wood

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 (four stout pirates, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flung	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flung	aux:pass
4	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flung	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 raised	punct
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 pirates	nummod
9	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pirates	amod
10	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 raised	nsubj
11	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flung	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 raised	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 shoulders	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 shoulders	nmod:poss
15	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 raised	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fell	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 others	det
18	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fell	nsubj
19	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 raised	conj
20	in	in	ADV	_	19 fell	advmod
21	behind	behind	ADV	_	19 fell	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 singing	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 singing	cc
24	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 flung	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 chorus	det
26	hateful	hateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 chorus	amod
27	pirate	pirate	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 chorus	compound
28	chorus	chorus	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 singing	obj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 procession	det
30	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 procession	amod
31	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 singing	obj
32	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 procession	acl
33	off	off	ADP	_	32 set	compound:prt
34	through	through	ADP	_	36 wood	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 wood	det
36	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 set	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fling	past · passive		the children	conveyance		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme into it=Destination
2	raise	past	four stout pirates	conveyance	children's shoulders		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shoulder=Destination
3	fall in	past	the others			behind property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sing speech: express	gerund		the hateful pirate chorus			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent chorus=Beneficiary procession=Theme
5	set off	participle		the strange procession not said here	the wood		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through wood=Initial_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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