Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 67
The wretched prisoners were dragged from the hold, all except Wendy, and ranged in line in front of him.
What happens: drag, range · To what, where: wretched prisoners, hold, line
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prisoners | det |
| 2 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prisoners | amod |
| 3 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dragged | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dragged | aux:pass |
| 5 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 hold | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hold | det |
| 8 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dragged | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Wendy | punct |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 Wendy | det |
| 11 | except | except | ADP | _ | 12 Wendy | case |
| 12 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hold | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ranged | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ranged | cc |
| 15 | ranged | range | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 dragged | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 line | case |
| 17 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ranged | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 front | case |
| 19 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ranged | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 front | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag | past · passive | the wretched prisoners | the hold | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from hold=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | range | participle | line | in front of Hook | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: 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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