Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 4

All the boys were plucked from their trees in this ruthless manner; and several of them were in the air at a time, like bales of goods flung from hand to hand.

Who acts: several · What happens: pluck, be, fling · To what, where: boys, trees, air, bales, hand

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 (several), 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	3 boys	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boys	det
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 plucked	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 plucked	aux:pass
5	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 trees	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 trees	nmod:poss
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 plucked	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 manner	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 manner	det
11	ruthless	ruthless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 manner	amod
12	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trees	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 air	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 air	cc
15	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 air	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 several	nmod
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 air	cop
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 air	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 air	det
21	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plucked	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 time	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 air	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bales	punct
26	like	like	ADP	_	27 bales	case
27	bales	bale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 plucked	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 goods	case
29	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	27 bales	nmod
30	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 bales	acl
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 hand	case
32	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flung	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 hand	case
34	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flung	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 plucked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pluck	past · passive		all boys	boys's trees in this ruthless manner			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from tree=Source
2	is	past	several of boys		the air	time		tree rules
3	fling	participle		bales of goods not said here	hand		to hand	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from hand=Initial_Location to hand=Destination

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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