Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 129

It was Smee who tied her to the mast.

Who acts: voice, Smee · What happens: be, tie · To what, where: Smee, Curly

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 (voice, Smee), 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	3 Smee	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Smee	cop
3	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tied	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 tied	nsubj
5	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tied	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 mast	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mast	det
9	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tied	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	voice	Smee					tree rules
2	tie	past	Smee	Curly				to the mast	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient to mast=Co-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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