Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 18
Take care lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, offer, accept, plunge · To what, where: care, adventure, you
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 (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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 8 offered | mark |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 adventure | det |
| 5 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 offered | aux:pass |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 offered | advmod |
| 8 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Take | advcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 offered | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 accepted | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 accepted | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 accepted | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 accepted | mark |
| 14 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 plunge | punct |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 plunge | aux |
| 17 | plunge | plunge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 plunge | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 woe | case |
| 20 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 woe | amod |
| 21 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 plunge | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 2 | offer | present · passive | a adventure | you | now | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal you=Theme | |||
| 3 | accept a condition, not said to happen | participle · passive | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | plunge | future | you not said here | you | in deepest woe | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient you=Extent in woe=Attribute |
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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