Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 16

There was a strict rule against turning round until one gave the signal, when all turned at once.

Who acts: strict rule, one · What happens: be, turn round, give, turn · To what, where: signal, all

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strict rule, one), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rule	det
4	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rule	amod
5	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	against	against	SCONJ	_	7 turning	mark
7	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 rule	acl
8	round	round	ADV	_	7 turning	advmod
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 gave	mark
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turning	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 signal	det
13	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 turned	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 turned	advmod
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 turned	nsubj:pass
17	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 signal	acl:relcl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 once	case
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 turned	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a strict rule		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	turn round	gerund	a strict rule not said here			round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	give	past	one	the signal			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme
4	turn	participle · passive		all			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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