Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 64

“Are all the children chained, so that they cannot fly away?”

Who acts: children · What happens: chain, not fly away

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 (children), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 chained	punct
2	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 all	cop
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 children	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 children	det
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chained	nsubj
6	chained	chain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fly	punct
8	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 fly	mark
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 so	fixed
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fly	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 fly	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 fly	advmod
13	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 chained	ccomp
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 fly	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 chained	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 chained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chain in a quote	past	all children						tree rules
2	not fly away in a quote	can	children = child					away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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