Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 71
“Now then, bullies,” he said briskly, “six of you walk the plank to-night, but I have room for two cabin boys.
Who acts: anon, six · What happens: say, walk, have · To what, where: bullies, plank, room · 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 (anon, six), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 then | advmod |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 bullies | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bullies | punct |
| 5 | bullies | bully | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bullies | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bullies | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | briskly | briskly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 six | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 six | punct |
| 13 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 walk | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 walk | nsubj |
| 16 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 plank | det |
| 18 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 walk | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 night | case |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 to | punct |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 walk | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 have | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 walk | conj |
| 26 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 boys | case |
| 28 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 boys | nummod |
| 29 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 boys | compound |
| 30 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 room | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | anon | bullies | briskly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | walk in a quote | present | six | the plank | night | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plank=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | anon | room | for two cabin boys | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=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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