Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 98

All pirates are superstitious, and Cookson cried, “They do say the surest sign a ship’s accurst is when there’s one on board more than can be accounted for.”

Who acts: pirates, Cookson · What happens: be, cry, say, account · To what, where: surest sign · 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 (pirates, Cookson), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 pirates	det
2	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 superstitious	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 superstitious	cop
4	superstitious	superstitious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cried	cc
7	Cookson	Cookson	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 superstitious	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
11	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 say	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 say	aux
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sign	det
15	surest	sure	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 sign	amod
16	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 ship	det
18	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 accurst	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 ship	case
20	accurst	accurst	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sign	appos
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 when	cop
22	when	when	SCONJ	_	24 ’s	mark
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 ’s	expl
24	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	advcl
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 ’s	obj
26	on	on	SCONJ	_	32 accounted	mark
27	board	board	ADP	_	32 accounted	mark
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	32 accounted	advmod
29	than	than	ADP	_	28 more	fixed
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 accounted	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 accounted	aux:pass
32	accounted	account	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 one	acl
33	for	for	ADP	_	32 accounted	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 superstitious	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 superstitious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	all pirates		superstitious property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	Cookson			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present · do-support	pirates = pirate	the surest sign		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sign=Topic
4	account in a quote	can · passive				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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