Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 4

The fairies take an hour longer in the morning, the beasts attend to their young, the redskins feed heavily for six days and nights, and when pirates and lost boys meet they merely bite their thumbs at each other.

Who acts: fairies, beasts, redskins, pirates · What happens: take, attend, feed, lose, meet, bite · To what, where: thumbs, each

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 (fairies, beasts, redskins, pirates), 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 fairies	det
2	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 take	nsubj
3	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hour	det
5	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 take	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 morning	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 morning	det
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 attend	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 beasts	det
12	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 attend	nsubj
13	attend	attend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 take	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 young	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 young	nmod:poss
16	young	young	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 attend	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 feed	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 redskins	det
19	redskins	redskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 feed	nsubj
20	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 attend	conj
21	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	20 feed	advmod
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 days	case
23	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 days	nummod
24	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 feed	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 nights	cc
26	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 days	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 bite	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 bite	cc
29	when	when	SCONJ	_	34 meet	mark
30	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 meet	nsubj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 boys	cc
32	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 boys	amod
33	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 pirates	conj
34	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 bite	advcl
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 bite	nsubj
36	merely	merely	ADV	_	37 bite	advmod
37	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 take	conj
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 thumbs	nmod:poss
39	thumbs	thumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 bite	obj
40	at	at	ADP	_	41 each	case
41	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	37 bite	obl
42	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 each	fixed
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	the fairies			hour; morning	long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	attend	present	the beasts				to beasts's young	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to young=Theme
3	feed	present	the redskins			day	heavily property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
4	lose	participle						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	meet	present	pirates and lost boys					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	bite	present	pirates = pirate	beasts's thumbs	each		merely property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thumb=Patient at each=Location

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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