Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 191

Fifteen paid the penalty for their crimes that night; but two reached the shore: Starkey to be captured by the redskins, who made him nurse for all their papooses, a melancholy come-down for a pirate; and Smee, who henceforth wandered about the world in his spectacles, making a precarious living by saying he was the only man that Jas.

Who acts: Fifteen, two, redskins, Hook · What happens: pay, reach, capture, make, come, wander · To what, where: penalty, shore, nurse, Fifteen, Smee, spectacles · 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 (Fifteen, two, redskins, Hook), 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	Fifteen	Fifteen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 paid	nsubj
2	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 penalty	det
4	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paid	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 crimes	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 crimes	nmod:poss
7	crimes	crime	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 paid	obl
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paid	obl:unmarked
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 reached	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 reached	cc
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 reached	nsubj
13	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 paid	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shore	det
15	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reached	obj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 Starkey	punct
17	Starkey	Starkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 shore	appos
18	to	to	PART	_	20 captured	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 captured	aux:pass
20	captured	capture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 shore	acl
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 redskins	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 redskins	det
23	redskins	redskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 captured	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 made	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 made	nsubj
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 redskins	acl:relcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 made	obj
28	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 made	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	32 papooses	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 papooses	det:predet
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 papooses	nmod:poss
32	papooses	papoose	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 nurse	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 melancholy	punct
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 melancholy	det
35	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shore	conj
36	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 reached	conj
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 down	punct
38	down	down	ADV	_	36 come	advmod
39	for	for	ADP	_	41 pirate	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 pirate	det
41	pirate	pirate	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 come	obl
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 Smee	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 Smee	cc
44	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 wandered	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 wandered	punct
46	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 wandered	nsubj
47	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	_	48 wandered	advmod
48	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 paid	parataxis
49	about	about	ADP	_	51 world	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 world	det
51	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 wandered	obl
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 spectacles	case
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 spectacles	nmod:poss
54	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 wandered	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 making	punct
56	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 wandered	advcl
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 living	det
58	precarious	precarious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 living	amod
59	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 making	obj
60	by	by	SCONJ	_	61 saying	mark
61	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	56 making	advcl
62	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 man	nsubj
63	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	66 man	cop
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 man	det
65	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 man	amod
66	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 saying	ccomp
67	that	that	SCONJ	_	68 Jas	mark
68	Jas	Jas	PROPN	Number=Sing	66 man	appos
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	Fifteen	the penalty			night	for Hook's crimes	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent penalty=Asset for crime=Theme
2	reach	past	two	the shore and a melancholy					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme
3	capture	to-infinitive · passive	the redskins	the shore and a melancholy not said here					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	make	past	the redskins	nurse	Fifteen				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary nurse=Product
5	come	infinitive	two not said here					for a pirate; down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	wander	past		Smee		Fifteen's spectacles		about the world; henceforth property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about world=Trajectory
7	make	gerund		a precarious living					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset living=Product
8	say speech: assert	gerund							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
9	is a	past	Fifteen	the only man					tree rules
10	incriminate		Hook						nom crime «act transitive»: poss=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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