Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 83

There were odd stories about him, as that when children died he went part of the way with them, so that they should not be frightened.

Who acts: odd stories, children, that · What happens: be, die, go, not frighten · To what, where: part, stories

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (odd stories, children, that), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stories	amod
4	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stories	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 went	mark
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 went	nsubj
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 died	advmod
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 died	nsubj
12	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	advcl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
15	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 way	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 part	nmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 way	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 frightened	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 frightened	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 frightened	nsubj:pass
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 frightened	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 frightened	advmod
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 frightened	aux:pass
28	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 went	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	odd stories about Peter		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die	past	children			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	go	past	that	part of the way with children		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=Theme
4	not frighten	should · passive		stories = story		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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