Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 10

The boys on the island vary, of course, in numbers, according as they get killed and so on; and when they seem to be growing up, which is against the rules, Peter thins them out; but at this time there were six of them, counting the twins as two.

Who acts: boys, Peter, six · What happens: vary, accord, kill, seem, grow up, be · To what, where: numbers, boys, twins

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, Peter, six), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boys	det
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 vary	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 island	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 island	det
5	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boys	nmod
6	vary	vary	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 numbers	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 numbers	case
9	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 of	fixed
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 numbers	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 numbers	case
12	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 vary	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 killed	punct
14	according	accord	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 killed	nsubj:pass
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 killed	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 killed	nsubj:pass
17	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 killed	aux:pass
18	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 numbers	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 on	cc
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 on	advmod
21	on	on	ADV	_	18 killed	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 thins	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 thins	cc
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 seem	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seem	nsubj
26	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 thins	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	29 growing	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 growing	aux
29	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 seem	xcomp
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 growing	compound:prt
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 rules	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 rules	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 rules	cop
34	against	against	ADP	_	36 rules	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 rules	det
36	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 growing	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seem	punct
38	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 thins	nsubj
39	thins	thin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 vary	parataxis
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 thins	obj
41	out	out	ADP	_	39 thins	compound:prt
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 were	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 were	cc
44	at	at	ADP	_	46 time	case
45	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 time	det
46	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 were	obl
47	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	48 were	expl
48	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 thins	parataxis
49	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 were	nsubj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 them	case
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 six	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 counting	punct
53	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 were	advcl
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 twins	det
55	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 counting	obj
56	as	as	ADP	_	57 two	case
57	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 counting	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 vary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vary	infinitive	the boys on the island	numbers				vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer number=Patient
2	accord	gerund						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	kill	present · passive						vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	seem	present	boys = boy					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	grow up	to-infinitive · progressive	boys = boy not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	present					against the rules	tree rules
7	thin out	present	Peter	boys = boy				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
8	be	past	six of boys		there	time		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	count	gerund	six of boys not said here	the twins			as two	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent twin=Theme as two=Attribute

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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