Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 26

Last come the Twins, who cannot be described because we should be sure to be describing the wrong one.

Who acts: you, we · What happens: come, not describe, be, describe · To what, where: Twins, wrong one

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, we), 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	Last	last	ADV	_	2 come	advmod
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Twins	det
4	Twins	Twin	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 come	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 described	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 described	nsubj:pass
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 described	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 described	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 described	aux:pass
10	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 Twins	acl:relcl
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 sure	mark
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 sure	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 sure	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 sure	cop
15	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 described	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	18 describing	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 describing	aux
18	describing	describe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 sure	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 one	det
20	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 one	amod
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 describing	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here	the Twins	last property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location twin=Theme
2	not describe	can · passive		the Twins		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
3	is	should	we		sure property	tree rules
4	describe	to-infinitive · progressive	we not said here	the wrong one		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent one=Theme

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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