Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 220

Any of the other boys obstructing the fairy path at night they would have mischiefed, but they just tweaked Peter’s nose and passed on.

Who acts: other boys, boys, Any · What happens: obstruct, mischief, tweak, pass on · To what, where: fairy path, night, nose

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 (other boys, boys, Any), 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	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 tweaked	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 boys	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boys	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boys	amod
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Any	nmod
6	obstructing	obstruct	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 boys	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 path	det
8	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 path	amod
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 obstructing	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 obstructing	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 mischiefed	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 mischiefed	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 mischiefed	aux
15	mischiefed	mischief	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 night	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tweaked	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 tweaked	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tweaked	nsubj
19	just	just	ADV	_	20 tweaked	advmod
20	tweaked	tweak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 nose	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 Peter	case
23	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tweaked	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 passed	cc
25	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 tweaked	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	25 passed	compound:prt
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 tweaked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	obstruct	gerund	the other boys not said here	the fairy path	night	vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer path=Eventuality
2	mischief	would · perfect	boys = boy	night not said here		tree rules
3	tweak	past	Any	Peter's nose		vn touch-20 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Experiencer
4	pass on	participle	Any not said here			vn send-11.1 «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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