Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 11
Peter had been removed for ever from his path, and all the other boys were in the brig, about to walk the plank.
Who acts: other boys · What happens: remove, be, walk · To what, where: Peter, brig, 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 (other boys), 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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 removed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 removed | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 removed | aux:pass |
| 4 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 path | case |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 path | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 path | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 path | nmod:poss |
| 9 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 removed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 brig | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 brig | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 boys | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boys | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 boys | amod |
| 15 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 brig | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 brig | cop |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 brig | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 brig | det |
| 19 | brig | brig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 removed | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 walk | punct |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 walk | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 walk | mark |
| 23 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 brig | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 plank | det |
| 25 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 walk | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 removed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remove | past · perfect · passive | Peter | for Peter's path | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | all other boys | the brig | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | walk | to-infinitive | the plank | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plank=Trajectory |
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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