Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 134

They were no longer able to hope that they would walk it manfully, for the capacity to think had gone from them; they could stare and shiver only.

Who acts: boys, capacity · What happens: be, hope, walk, think, go, stare · To what, where: promise · 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 (boys, capacity), 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	5 able	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 able	cop
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 longer	advmod
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 able	advmod
5	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hope	mark
7	hope	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	xcomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 walk	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 walk	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 walk	aux
11	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hope	ccomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 walk	obj
13	manfully	manfully	ADV	_	11 walk	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gone	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 gone	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 capacity	det
17	capacity	capacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gone	nsubj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 think	mark
19	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 capacity	acl
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	aux
21	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 walk	parataxis
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gone	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 stare	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stare	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 stare	aux
27	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 shiver	cc
29	shiver	shiver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 stare	conj
30	only	only	ADV	_	29 shiver	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	boys = boy		able, long property	tree rules
2	hope	to-infinitive	boys = boy not said here			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	walk	would	boys = boy	promise	manfully property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the capacity not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go	past · perfect	the capacity		from boys = boy	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from they=Initial_Location
6	stare	could	boys = boy			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
7	shiver	infinitive	boys = boy not said here			vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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