Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 167

They began the verse, but they never finished it, for another sound broke in and stilled them.

Who acts: belay, sound · What happens: begin, not finish, break in, still · To what, where: verse, belay

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 (belay, sound), 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	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 verse	det
4	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 finished	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 finished	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 finished	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 finished	advmod
9	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 finished	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 broke	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 broke	mark
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 sound	det
14	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 broke	nsubj
15	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 finished	parataxis
16	in	in	ADV	_	15 broke	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stilled	cc
18	stilled	still	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 broke	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stilled	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	begin	past	belay	the verse	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Eventuality
2	not finish	past	belay	verse	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality
3	break in	past	another sound		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	still	past	another sound not said here	belay	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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