Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 29

We hear them before they are seen, and it is always the same dreadful song:

Who acts: We, two · What happens: hear, see, be · To what, where: pirates, same dreadful song

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 (We, two), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 hear	nsubj
2	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hear	obj
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 seen	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seen	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 seen	aux:pass
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hear	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 song	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 song	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 song	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 song	cop
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 song	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 song	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 song	amod
15	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 song	amod
16	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hear	parataxis
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	present	We	pirates = pirate		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	see	present · passive		pirates = pirate		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	is a	present	two	the same dreadful song	always property	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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