Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 68

These he had boiled down into a yellow liquid quite unknown to science, which was probably the most virulent poison in existence.

Who acts: science · What happens: boil down, be · To what, where: These, yellow liquid, virulent poison, existence

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 (science), 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	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 boiled	nsubj:pass
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 boiled	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boiled	aux
4	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 boiled	compound:prt
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 liquid	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 liquid	det
8	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 liquid	amod
9	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boiled	obl
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 unknown	advmod
11	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 liquid	amod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 science	case
13	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 unknown	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 poison	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 poison	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 poison	cop
17	probably	probably	ADV	_	21 poison	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 poison	det
19	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	20 virulent	advmod
20	virulent	virulent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 poison	amod
21	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 science	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 existence	case
23	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 poison	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 boiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil down	past · perfect · passive		These		a yellow liquid			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	is a	past	science and the virulent poison	the virulent poison		existence		probably property	tree rules

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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