Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 20

So long as mothers are like this their children will take advantage of them; and they may lay to that.

Who acts: mothers · What happens: be, take, lay · To what, where: advantage

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 (mothers), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 take	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	9 children	case
4	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 children	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 children	cop
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 children	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 children	det
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 children	nmod:poss
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 take	obl
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 take	aux
11	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 advantage	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 lay	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lay	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lay	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 lay	aux
19	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 take	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 that	case
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 lay	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	mothers		as mothers's children	tree rules
2	take	future		advantage of mothers	long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme
3	lay	may	mothers = mother		to that	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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