Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 67

The crocodile passes, but soon the boys appear again, for the procession must continue indefinitely until one of the parties stops or changes its pace.

Who acts: crocodile, boys, procession, one · What happens: pass, appear, continue, stop, change · To what, where: pace

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 (crocodile, boys, procession, one), 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 crocodile	det
2	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passes	nsubj
3	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 appear	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 appear	cc
6	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 appear	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boys	det
8	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 appear	nsubj
9	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 passes	parataxis
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 appear	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 continue	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 continue	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 procession	det
14	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 continue	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 continue	aux
16	continue	continue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 appear	conj
17	indefinitely	indefinitely	ADV	_	16 continue	advmod
18	until	until	SCONJ	_	23 stops	mark
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 stops	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 parties	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 parties	det
22	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 one	nmod
23	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 continue	advcl
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 changes	cc
25	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 stops	conj
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 pace	nmod:poss
27	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 changes	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass	present	the crocodile				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	appear	present	the boys		again	soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	continue	must	the procession			indefinitely property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stop	present	one of the parties				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	change	present	one of the parties not said here	procession's pace			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pace=Patient

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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