Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 110
The boys, pretending to struggle, were pushed into the cabin and the door was closed on them.
What happens: pretend, struggle, push, close · To what, where: boys, cabin, door
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”. 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 | 2 boys | det |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pushed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pretending | punct |
| 4 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 boys | nmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 struggle | mark |
| 6 | struggle | struggle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pretending | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 boys | punct |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pushed | aux:pass |
| 9 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 cabin | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cabin | det |
| 12 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pushed | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 closed | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 door | det |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 closed | aux:pass |
| 17 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 cabin | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 closed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | struggle | to-infinitive | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | push | past · passive | the boys | the cabin | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into cabin=Destination | ||||
| 4 | close | past · passive | the door | on boys = boy | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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