Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 7
The lost boys were out looking for Peter, the pirates were out looking for the lost boys, the redskins were out looking for the pirates, and the beasts were out looking for the redskins.
Who acts: lost boys, pirates, beasts · What happens: lose, look
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 (lost boys, pirates, beasts), 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 | 3 boys | det |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 boys | amod |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looking | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looking | aux |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 were | compound:prt |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 Peter | case |
| 8 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 looking | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looking | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pirates | det |
| 11 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 looking | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 looking | aux |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 were | compound:prt |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 looking | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 boys | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 boys | det |
| 17 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 boys | amod |
| 18 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 looking | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 redskins | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 redskins | det |
| 21 | redskins | redskin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 boys | conj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 boys | acl:relcl |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 were | compound:prt |
| 24 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 looking | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 pirates | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pirates | det |
| 27 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 looking | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 looking | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 looking | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 beasts | det |
| 31 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 looking | nsubj |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 looking | aux |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 were | compound:prt |
| 34 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 looking | conj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 redskins | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 redskins | det |
| 37 | redskins | redskin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 looking | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | look | past · progressive | the lost boys | for Peter | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for peter=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | past · progressive | the pirates | for the lost boys and the redskins | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for boy=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | look | gerund | the pirates not said here | for the pirates | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for pirate=Theme | ||||
| 6 | look | past · progressive | the beasts | for the redskins | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for redskin=Theme |
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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