Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 51

In the bitterness of his remorse he swore that he would never leave the kennel until his children came back.

Who acts: Nana, children · What happens: swear, not leave, come back · To what, where: bitterness, kennel

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 (Nana, children), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 bitterness	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bitterness	det
3	bitterness	bitterness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swore	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 remorse	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 remorse	nmod:poss
6	remorse	remorse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bitterness	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 swore	nsubj
8	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 leave	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 leave	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 leave	aux
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 leave	advmod
13	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 swore	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kennel	det
15	kennel	kennel	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leave	obj
16	until	until	SCONJ	_	19 came	mark
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 children	nmod:poss
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 leave	advcl
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 came	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 swore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	swear	past	Nana		the bitterness of Nana's remorse	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not leave	would	Nana	the kennel		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kennel=Theme
3	come back	past	Nana's children			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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