Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 67

Lest he should be taken alive, Hook always carried about his person a dreadful drug, blended by himself of all the death-dealing rings that had come into his possession.

Who acts: Hook, dealing rings · What happens: take, carry, blend, come, possess · To what, where: Hook, dreadful drug, possession

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 (Hook, dealing rings), 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	Lest	lest	SCONJ	_	5 taken	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 taken	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 taken	aux:pass
5	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 carried	advcl
6	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 taken	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 taken	punct
8	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carried	nsubj
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 carried	advmod
10	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 person	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 person	nmod:poss
13	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carried	obl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 drug	det
15	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 drug	amod
16	drug	drug	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carried	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 blended	punct
18	blended	blend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 drug	acl
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 himself	case
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 blended	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	27 rings	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 rings	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rings	det
24	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dealing	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 death	punct
26	dealing	dealing	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rings	compound
27	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 blended	obl
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 come	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
30	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 rings	acl:relcl
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 possession	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 possession	nmod:poss
33	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 come	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	should · passive		Hook		alive property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
2	carry	past	Hook	a dreadful drug		about Hook's person; always property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drug=Theme
3	blend	participle		a dreadful drug not said here		by Hook; of all dealing rings	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	come	past · perfect	all dealing rings		Hook's possession		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into possession=Initial_Location
5	possess		Hook				nom possession «act transitive»: 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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