Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 126
The astounded brothers were dragged away to hack and hew and carry.
What happens: astound, drag away, hack, hew, carry · To what, where: astounded brothers
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brothers | det |
| 2 | astounded | astound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 brothers | amod |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dragged | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dragged | aux:pass |
| 5 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 dragged | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hack | mark |
| 8 | hack | hack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dragged | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hew | cc |
| 10 | hew | hew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hack | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 carry | cc |
| 12 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hack | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | astound | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | drag away | past · passive | the astounded brothers | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hack | to-infinitive | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | hew | infinitive | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | carry | infinitive | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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