Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 99
“Ay, and the sound would have brought Tiger Lily’s redskins upon us.
What happens: bring · To what, where: sound
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | punct |
| 2 | Ay | ay | INTJ | _ | 9 brought | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ay | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 brought | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sound | det |
| 6 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 brought | aux |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 brought | aux |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 redskins | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Tiger | flat |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Tiger | case |
| 13 | redskins | redskin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brought | obj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 us | case |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | would · perfect · passive | the sound | upon us | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination 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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