Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 106
They were only boys, and they went white as they saw Jukes and Cecco preparing the fatal plank.
Who acts: mothers, Jukes · What happens: be, go, see, prepare · To what, where: boys, Jukes, fatal plank
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mothers, Jukes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 boys | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 boys | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 boys | advmod |
| 4 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 boys | acl:relcl |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 went | xcomp |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 saw | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | advcl |
| 13 | Jukes | Jukes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Cecco | cc |
| 15 | Cecco | Cecco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Jukes | conj |
| 16 | preparing | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 Jukes | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 plank | det |
| 18 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 plank | amod |
| 19 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 preparing | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 boys | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | mothers = mother | boys | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | mothers = mother | boys not said here | white property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boy=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | past | mothers = mother | Jukes and Cecco | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jukes=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | prepare | gerund | Jukes and Cecco not said here | the fatal plank | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plank=Patient |
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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