Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 12

It was his grimmest deed since the days when he had brought Barbecue to heel; and knowing as we do how vain a tabernacle is man, could we be surprised had he now paced the deck unsteadily, bellied out by the winds of his success?

Who acts: plank, Peter, we, knowing, man · What happens: be, bring, heel, know, do, vain · To what, where: grimmest deed, Barbecue, tabernacle, man, deck, success · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (plank, Peter, we, knowing), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 deed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 deed	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 deed	nmod:poss
4	grimmest	grim	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 deed	amod
5	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	since	since	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 days	det
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 deed	nmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 brought	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brought	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 brought	aux
12	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 days	acl:relcl
13	Barbecue	barbecue	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brought	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 heel	mark
15	heel	heel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 Barbecue	acl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 man	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 man	cc
18	knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 man	csubj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 do	mark
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 do	nsubj
21	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 knowing	ccomp
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 vain	advmod
23	vain	vain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 do	advcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 tabernacle	det
25	tabernacle	tabernacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 vain	obj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 man	cop
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 surprised	punct
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 surprised	aux
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 surprised	nsubj
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 surprised	cop
32	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	conj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 deed	acl:relcl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 paced	nsubj
35	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 paced	advmod
36	paced	pace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 had	ccomp
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 deck	det
38	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 paced	obj
39	unsteadily	unsteadily	ADV	_	36 paced	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 bellied	punct
41	bellied	belly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 deed	parataxis
42	out	out	ADP	_	41 bellied	compound:prt
43	by	by	ADP	_	45 winds	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 winds	det
45	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 bellied	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 success	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 success	nmod:poss
48	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 winds	nmod
49	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 deed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	plank	Peter's grimmest deed	day		tree rules
2	bring	past · perfect	Peter	Barbecue			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent barbecue=Theme
3	heel	to-infinitive	Peter not said here	Barbecue not said here			vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	know	gerund					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	present	we				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	vain	infinitive	we not said here	a tabernacle			tree rules
7	is a	present	knowing	man			tree rules
8	is	could	we			surprised property	tree rules
9	have	past	man	Peter's grimmest deed not said here			tree rules
10	pace	past	Peter	the deck	now	unsteadily property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location deck=Theme
11	belly out	participle				by the winds of Peter's success	tree rules
12	wind			Peter's success			nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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