Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 116

In the cabin he had found the thing for which he had gone in search: the key that would free the children of their manacles, and now they all stole forth, armed with such weapons as they could find.

Who acts: reluctance, things · What happens: find, go, steal · To what, where: thing, cabin, search

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: who acts (reluctance, things), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 cabin	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cabin	det
3	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 found	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	aux
6	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thing	det
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 gone	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gone	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	aux
13	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 thing	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 search	case
15	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gone	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 free	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 key	det
18	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 free	nsubj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 free	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 free	aux
21	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 found	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 children	det
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 free	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 manacles	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 manacles	nmod:poss
26	manacles	manacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 children	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stole	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 stole	cc
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 stole	advmod
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 stole	nsubj
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 stole	advmod
32	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 free	parataxis
33	forth	forth	ADV	_	32 stole	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 armed	punct
35	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 free	conj
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 weapons	case
37	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 weapons	amod
38	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 armed	obl
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 find	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 find	nsubj
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 find	aux
42	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 armed	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · perfect	reluctance	the thing	the cabin			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
2	go	past · perfect	reluctance		search		for the thing	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for which=Theme in search=Location
3	steal	past	things = thing			now	forth property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	could	things = thing					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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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