Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 173
It had passed the redskins, who were now on the trail of the other pirates.
Who acts: redskins · What happens: pass, be · To what, where: foot, trail
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 (redskins), 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 | 3 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | aux |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 redskins | det |
| 5 | redskins | redskin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trail | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 trail | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 trail | cop |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 trail | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 trail | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 trail | det |
| 12 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 redskins | acl:relcl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 pirates | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pirates | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pirates | amod |
| 16 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 trail | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect · passive | foot | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient redskin=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the redskins | the trail | now | of the other pirates | 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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