Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 33

That gigantic black behind him has had many names since he dropped the one with which dusky mothers still terrify their children on the banks of the Guadjo-mo.

Who acts: Cecco, dusky mothers · What happens: have, drop, terrify · To what, where: many names, one, children, banks

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 (Cecco, dusky mothers), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 black	nsubj
2	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 black	amod
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 had	mark
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 had	aux
7	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 black	ccomp
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 names	amod
9	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
10	since	since	SCONJ	_	12 dropped	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dropped	nsubj
12	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dropped	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 terrify	obl
17	dusky	dusky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mothers	amod
18	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 terrify	nsubj
19	still	still	ADV	_	20 terrify	advmod
20	terrify	terrify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 one	acl:relcl
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 children	nmod:poss
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 terrify	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 banks	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 banks	det
25	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 terrify	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 mo	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mo	det
28	Guadjo	Guadjo	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 mo	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 Guadjo	punct
30	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 banks	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 black	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · perfect	Cecco	many names				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
2	drop	past	Cecco	the one				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	terrify	present	dusky mothers	mothers's children	the banks of the Guadjo mo	still	with the one	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer

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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