Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 120
To the pirates it was a voice crying that all the boys lay slain in the cabin; and they were panic-stricken.
Who acts: breath, voice, boys · What happens: be, cry, slay · To what, where: voice, boys, cabin · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (breath, voice, boys), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 pirates | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pirates | det |
| 3 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 voice | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 voice | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 voice | det |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pirates | nmod |
| 8 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 voice | acl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 slain | mark |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 boys | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boys | det |
| 12 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 slain | nsubj |
| 13 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 slain | aux:pass |
| 14 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 crying | ccomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 cabin | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cabin | det |
| 17 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slain | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 stricken | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stricken | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stricken | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 stricken | cop |
| 22 | panic | panic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stricken | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 panic | punct |
| 24 | stricken | stricken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pirates | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pirates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | breath | a voice | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | a voice not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | slay | past · passive | all boys | the cabin | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | boys = boy | stricken property | tree rules |
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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