Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 166

“Avast, belay, when I appear, By fear they’re overtook; Nought’s left upon your bones when you Have shaken claws with Hook.”

Who acts: boys, belay, you · What happens: appear, 're, leave, shake · To what, where: fear, Nought, bones, claws

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, belay, you), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Avast	punct
2	Avast	avast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 belay	punct
4	belay	belay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Avast	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 appear	punct
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 appear	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 appear	nsubj
8	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Avast	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fear	punct
10	By	by	ADP	_	11 fear	case
11	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 appear	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ’re	nsubj
13	’re	're	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fear	acl:relcl
14	overtook	overtook	ADV	_	13 ’re	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 left	punct
16	Nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	18 left	nsubj:pass
17	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 left	aux:pass
18	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Avast	parataxis
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 bones	case
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 bones	nmod:poss
21	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 left	obl
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 shaken	advmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 shaken	nsubj
24	Have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 shaken	aux
25	shaken	shake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 left	advcl
26	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 shaken	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 Hook	case
28	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shaken	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Avast	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Avast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear in a quote	present	boys = boy			by fear	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by fear=Location
2	're in a quote	past	belay	fear not said here		overtook property	tree rules
3	leave in a quote	present · passive		Nought	your bones		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme upon bone=Location
4	shake in a quote	present · perfect	you	claws		with Hook	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent claw=Patient with hook=Co-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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