Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 140

Had the pirates kept together it is certain that they would have won; but the onset came when they were still unstrung, and they ran hither and thither, striking wildly, each thinking himself the last survivor of the crew.

Who acts: pirates, it, onset, each · What happens: keep together, be, win, come, unstring, run · To what, where: pirates, onset

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 (pirates, it, onset, each), 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	Had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pirates	det
3	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	together	together	ADV	_	4 kept	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 certain	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 certain	cop
8	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	xcomp
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 won	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 won	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 won	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 won	aux
13	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 certain	ccomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 onset	det
17	onset	onset	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	parataxis
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 unstrung	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 unstrung	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 unstrung	aux:pass
22	still	still	ADV	_	23 unstrung	advmod
23	unstrung	unstring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 came	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ran	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ran	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 ran	nsubj
27	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 came	conj
28	hither	hither	ADV	_	27 ran	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 thither	cc
30	thither	thither	ADV	_	28 hither	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 striking	punct
32	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 ran	advcl
33	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	32 striking	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 thinking	punct
35	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	36 thinking	nsubj
36	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 striking	conj
37	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 thinking	obj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 survivor	det
39	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 survivor	amod
40	survivor	survivor	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 thinking	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 crew	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 crew	det
43	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 survivor	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep together	past	the pirates			together property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it			certain property	tree rules
3	win	would · perfect	pirates = pirate				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	the onset				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	unstring	past · passive		pirates = pirate	still		tree rules
6	run	past	pirates = pirate			hither property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	strike	gerund	pirates = pirate not said here			wildly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	think speech: other	gerund	each	onset			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme survivor=Attribute

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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