Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 161

They will find the cake and they will gobble it up, because, having no mother, they don’t know how dangerous ’tis to eat rich damp cake.”

Who acts: boys · What happens: find, gobble up, have, not know, eat · To what, where: cake, mother, dangerous tis, rich damp cake

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), 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 find	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cake	det
5	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gobble	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gobble	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 gobble	aux
9	gobble	gobble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 find	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gobble	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 gobble	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 having	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 having	mark
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 having	punct
15	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 gobble	advcl
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 mother	det
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 having	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 know	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 know	nsubj
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 know	aux
21	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 know	advmod
22	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 find	conj
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 dangerous	advmod
24	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 tis	amod
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 tis	punct
26	tis	tis	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 know	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 eat	mark
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 tis	acl
29	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 cake	amod
30	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 cake	amod
31	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eat	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 find	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	find	future	boys = boy	the cake	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Topic
2	gobble up	future	boys = boy	cake	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	have	gerund	boys = boy not said here	no mother	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient
4	not know	present · do-support	boys = boy	dangerous tis	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tis=Stimulus
5	eat	to-infinitive	boys = boy not said here	rich damp cake	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient

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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