Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 169

To prevent Peter ordering babies they hurried into song again:

Who acts: babies · What happens: prevent, order, hurry · To what, where: Peter, song, ordering babies

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: who acts (babies), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 prevent	mark
2	prevent	prevent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 prevent	obj
4	ordering	order	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 babies	amod
5	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 prevent	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hurried	nsubj
7	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 babies	acl:relcl
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 song	case
9	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prevent	obl
10	again	again	ADV	_	2 prevent	advmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 prevent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	prevent	to-infinitive		Peter	song	again	tree rules
2	order	gerund					vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	hurry	past	babies = baby	ordering babies not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=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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