Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 77

Perhaps a better one would be the night attack by the redskins on the house under the ground, when several of them stuck in the hollow trees and had to be pulled out like corks.

Who acts: better one · What happens: be, have, pull out · To what, where: night attack

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 (better 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 one	det
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attack	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 attack	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 attack	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 attack	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attack	compound
9	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 redskins	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 redskins	det
12	redskins	redskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 attack	nmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 house	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 redskins	nmod
16	under	under	ADP	_	18 ground	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ground	det
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 house	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stuck	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 stuck	advmod
21	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 stuck	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 several	nmod
24	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 attack	parataxis
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 trees	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 trees	det
27	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 trees	amod
28	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 stuck	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 stuck	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	33 pulled	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 pulled	aux:pass
33	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 had	xcomp
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 pulled	compound:prt
35	like	like	ADP	_	36 corks	case
36	corks	cork	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 pulled	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 attack	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	would	a better one	the night attack	by the redskins on the house under the ground	tree rules
2	have	past	a better one not said here			tree rules
3	pull out	to-infinitive · passive	a better one not said here		like corks	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»

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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