Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 9

All wanted blood except the boys, who liked it as a rule, but to-night were out to greet their captain.

Who acts: boys · What happens: want, like, be, greet · To what, where: blood, captain

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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 wanted	advmod
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
4	except	except	ADP	_	6 boys	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boys	det
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wanted	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 liked	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 liked	nsubj
9	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 boys	acl:relcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 liked	obj
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 rule	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 rule	det
13	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 liked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 out	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 out	cc
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 night	case
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 to	punct
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 out	obl
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 out	cop
20	out	out	ADV	_	2 wanted	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 greet	mark
22	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 out	advcl
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 captain	nmod:poss
24	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 greet	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	want	past		blood		except the boys	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot blood=Theme
2	like	past	the boys	blood		as a rule	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	is	past			night	out property	tree rules
4	greet speech: greet	to-infinitive		boys's captain			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=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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