Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 11
Some of them wanted it to be an honest ship and others were in favour of keeping it a pirate; but the captain treated them as dogs, and they dared not express their wishes to him even in a round robin.
Who acts: Some, chart, others, favour, captain, orders · What happens: want, be, keep, treat, express, wish · To what, where: chart, honest ship, favour, orders, wishes, captain
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, chart, others, favour), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Some | nmod |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 ship | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ship | cop |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ship | det |
| 9 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ship | amod |
| 10 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 favour | cc |
| 12 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 favour | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 favour | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 favour | case |
| 15 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ship | conj |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 keeping | mark |
| 17 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 favour | acl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 keeping | obj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pirate | det |
| 20 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keeping | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 treated | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 treated | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 captain | det |
| 24 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 treated | nsubj |
| 25 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wanted | parataxis |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 treated | obj |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 dogs | case |
| 28 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 treated | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 express | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 express | cc |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 express | nsubj |
| 32 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 express | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 dared | advmod |
| 34 | express | express | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 treated | conj |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 36 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 express | obj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 him | case |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 express | obl |
| 39 | even | even | ADV | _ | 43 robin | advmod |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 robin | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 robin | det |
| 42 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 robin | amod |
| 43 | robin | robin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 express | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | Some | chart | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | chart not said here | a honest ship and favour | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | others | favour | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep | gerund | favour not said here | chart | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme pirate=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | treat | past | the captain | orders = order | as dogs | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme as dog=Attribute | |||
| 6 | express | past | orders = order | orders's wishes | captain | a round robin | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wish=Theme to he=Recipient | ||
| 7 | wish | orders = order | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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