Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 82

At once the lost boys—but where are they?

Who acts: boys · What happens: lose, be

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 (boys), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 once	case
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 boys	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boys	det
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 boys	amod
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	—	-	PUNCT	_	8 where	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 where	cc
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 boys	nmod
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 where	cop
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 where	nsubj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 boys	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	is	present	boys = boy					where property	tree rules

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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