Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 12

They are forbidden by Peter to look in the least like him, and they wear the skins of the bears slain by themselves, in which they are so round and furry that when they fall they roll.

Who acts: Peter, boys · What happens: forbid, look, wear, slay, be, fall · To what, where: boys, skins, bears

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 (Peter, boys), 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	3 forbidden	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 forbidden	aux:pass
3	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 Peter	case
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 forbidden	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 look	mark
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forbidden	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 least	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 least	det
10	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 look	obl
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 least	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wear	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wear	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wear	nsubj
16	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 forbidden	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 skins	det
18	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wear	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 bears	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bears	det
21	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 skins	nmod
22	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 bears	acl
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 themselves	case
24	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 slain	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 round	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 round	obl
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 round	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 round	cop
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 round	advmod
31	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wear	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 furry	cc
33	furry	furry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 round	conj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 fall	mark
35	when	when	SCONJ	_	37 fall	mark
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 fall	nsubj
37	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 round	advcl
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 roll	nsubj
39	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 fall	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 forbidden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forbid	present · passive	Peter	boys = boy		tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive	Peter not said here		in the least	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in least=Theme
3	wear	present	boys = boy	the skins of the bears		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent skin=Source
4	slay	participle		the bears not said here	by boys = boy	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	boys = boy		round property	tree rules
6	be		boys = boy not said here			tree rules
7	fall	present	boys = boy			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	roll	present	boys = boy			vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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