Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 28

The boys vanish in the gloom, and after a pause, but not a long pause, for things go briskly on the island, come the pirates on their track.

Who acts: boys, things · What happens: vanish, go, come · To what, where: long pause, gloom, island, pirates, track

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, things), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boys	det
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 vanish	nsubj
3	vanish	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 gloom	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gloom	det
6	gloom	gloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vanish	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pause	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pause	cc
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 pause	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pause	det
11	pause	pause	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gloom	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pause	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 pause	cc
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 pause	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pause	det
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pause	amod
17	pause	pause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vanish	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 go	mark
20	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 go	nsubj
21	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 vanish	parataxis
22	briskly	briskly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 go	xcomp
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 island	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 island	det
25	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 go	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 come	punct
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pirates	det
29	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 come	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 track	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 track	nmod:poss
32	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 come	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 vanish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	vanish	present	the boys	a long pause	the gloom and a pause		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	present	things		the island	briskly property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on island=Location
3	come	infinitive	things not said here	the pirates	things's track		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pirate=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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