Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 35
Mullins and Alf Mason and many another ruffian long known and feared on the Spanish Main.
What happens: know, fear · To what, where: Mullins, Spanish Main
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: 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 | Mullins | Mullins | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 known | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Mason | cc |
| 3 | Alf | Alf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mason | compound |
| 4 | Mason | Mason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mullins | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 known | cc |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 known | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 many | conj |
| 8 | ruffian | ruffian | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 known | aux:pass |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 known | advmod |
| 10 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 feared | cc |
| 12 | feared | fear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 known | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 Main | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Main | det |
| 15 | Spanish | Spanish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Main | compound |
| 16 | Main | Main | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 feared | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · passive | Mullins and Alf Mason | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fear | participle | the Spanish Main | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=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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