Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 28

They have been planning it out on the ship: mother’s rapture, father’s shout of joy, Nana’s leap through the air to embrace them first, when what they ought to be prepared for is a good hiding.

Who acts: children, father, Nana · What happens: plan out, embrace, prepare, be, shout, leap · To what, where: surprise, ship, children, good hiding, joy

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 (children, father, Nana), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 planning	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 planning	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 planning	aux
4	planning	plan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 hiding	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 planning	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 planning	compound:prt
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 ship	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ship	det
9	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 planning	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 rapture	punct
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rapture	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 mother	case
13	rapture	rapture	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ship	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shout	punct
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shout	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 father	case
17	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rapture	appos
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 joy	case
19	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shout	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 leap	punct
21	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 leap	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 Nana	case
23	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rapture	conj
24	through	through	ADP	_	26 air	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 air	det
26	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 planning	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 embrace	mark
28	embrace	embrace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 planning	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 embrace	obj
30	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 embrace	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 prepared	punct
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 prepared	advmod
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 prepared	obj
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 prepared	nsubj:pass
35	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 prepared	aux
36	to	to	PART	_	38 prepared	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 prepared	aux:pass
38	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 planning	conj
39	for	for	ADP	_	38 prepared	obl
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 hiding	cop
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 hiding	det
42	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 hiding	amod
43	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	43 hiding	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	plan out	present · perfect · progressive	children = child	surprise	the ship	through the air	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	embrace	to-infinitive	children = child not said here	children = child		first property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
3	prepare	ought · passive		children = child			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary what=Product
4	is a	present		a good hiding			tree rules
5	shout		father	joy			nom shout «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient
6	leap		Nana				nom leap «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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