Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 3

He rose out of it into the arms of Cecco, who flung him to Smee, who flung him to Starkey, who flung him to Bill Jukes, who flung him to Noodler, and so he was tossed from one to another till he fell at the feet of the black pirate.

Who acts: horror, Cecco, Smee, Starkey, Bill · What happens: rise, fling, toss, fall · To what, where: tree, horror, Smee, Starkey, Bill, Noodler

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 (horror, Cecco, Smee, Starkey), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rose	nsubj
2	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	5 it	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rose	obl
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 arms	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 arms	det
8	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rose	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Cecco	case
10	Cecco	Cecco	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 arms	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flung	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 flung	nsubj
13	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Cecco	acl:relcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 flung	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Smee	case
16	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 flung	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 flung	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 flung	nsubj
19	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 Smee	acl:relcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 flung	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 Starkey	case
22	Starkey	Starkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 flung	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 flung	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 flung	nsubj
25	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 Starkey	acl:relcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 flung	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 Bill	case
28	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 flung	obl
29	Jukes	Jukes	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Bill	flat
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 flung	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 flung	nsubj
32	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 Bill	acl:relcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 flung	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 Noodler	case
35	Noodler	Noodler	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 flung	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 tossed	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 tossed	cc
38	so	so	ADV	_	41 tossed	advmod
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 tossed	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 tossed	aux:pass
41	tossed	toss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 rose	conj
42	from	from	ADP	_	43 one	case
43	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 tossed	obl
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 till	case
45	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	46 till	det
46	till	till	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 one	nmod
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 fell	nsubj
48	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 till	acl:relcl
49	at	at	ADP	_	51 feet	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 feet	det
51	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 fell	obl
52	of	of	ADP	_	55 pirate	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 pirate	det
54	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 pirate	amod
55	pirate	pirate	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 feet	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past	horror			tree	into the arms of Cecco	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme out it=Initial_Location into arm=Destination
2	fling	past	Cecco	horror	Smee			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme to smee=Destination
3	fling	past	Smee	horror	Starkey			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme to starkey=Destination
4	fling	past	Starkey	horror	Bill			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme to bill=Destination
5	fling	past	Bill	horror	Noodler			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme to noodler=Destination
6	toss	past · passive		horror			from one to another till	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product from one=Material
7	fall	past	horror	another till not said here		the feet of the black pirate		vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient till=Result

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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