Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 144

It was the custom of the boys to stop it with a mushroom when enemies were in the neighbourhood.

Who acts: ground, enemies · What happens: be, stop · To what, where: custom, ground, neighbourhood

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 (ground, enemies), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 custom	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 custom	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 custom	det
4	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 boys	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boys	det
7	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 custom	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stop	mark
9	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 custom	acl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stop	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 mushroom	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mushroom	det
13	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stop	obl
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 neighbourhood	advmod
15	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 neighbourhood	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 neighbourhood	cop
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 neighbourhood	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 neighbourhood	det
19	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stop	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 custom	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	ground	the custom		of the boys	tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive		ground		with a mushroom	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality with mushroom=Subeventuality
3	is	past	enemies		the neighbourhood		tree rules

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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