Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 74

At the Gulch, when victory was still in the balance, sometimes leaning this way and sometimes that, he called out, “I’m redskin to-day; what are you, Tootles?”

Who acts: victory, balance, Gulch, you · What happens: be, lean, call out · To what, where: balance, way, redskin, Gulch · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (victory, balance, Gulch, you), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 Gulch	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Gulch	det
3	Gulch	Gulch	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Gulch	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 balance	mark
6	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 balance	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 balance	cop
8	still	still	ADV	_	11 balance	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 balance	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 balance	det
11	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Gulch	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 leaning	punct
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 leaning	advmod
14	leaning	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 balance	acl
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 way	det
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leaning	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 that	cc
18	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 that	advmod
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 way	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 called	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 called	nsubj
22	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 balance	parataxis
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 called	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ’m	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 ’m	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 ’m	nsubj
27	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 called	conj
28	redskin	redskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ’m	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 day	case
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 to	punct
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ’m	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 what	punct
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 balance	conj
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 what	cop
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 what	nsubj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Tootles	punct
37	Tootles	tootle	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 what	appos
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	37 Tootles	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 balance	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	victory		the balance	still		tree rules
2	lean	gerund	the balance not said here	this way			sometimes property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
3	call out speech: ask	past	Gulch					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	be in a quote	present	Gulch	redskin		day		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot redskin=Theme
5	is a in a quote	present	you	the Gulch				tree rules

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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