Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 79

Or we could tell of that cake the pirates cooked so that the boys might eat it and perish; and how they placed it in one cunning spot after another; but always Wendy snatched it from the hands of her children, so that in time it lost its succulence, and became as hard as a stone, and was used as a missile, and Hook fell over it in the dark.

Who acts: we, boys, Wendy, life · What happens: tell, cook, eat, perish, place, snatch · To what, where: pirates, life, one cunning spot, hands, succulence · 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 (we, boys, Wendy, life), 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	Or	or	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 cake	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 cake	det
7	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pirates	det
9	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cake	conj
10	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 pirates	acl
11	so	so	SCONJ	_	16 eat	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 eat	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boys	det
14	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 eat	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 eat	aux
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cooked	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 eat	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 perish	cc
19	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 eat	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 placed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 placed	cc
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 placed	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 placed	nsubj
24	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 placed	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 spot	case
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 spot	nummod
28	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 spot	compound
29	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 placed	obl
30	after	after	ADP	_	31 another	case
31	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	24 placed	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 snatched	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 snatched	cc
34	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	36 snatched	advmod
35	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 snatched	nsubj
36	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 placed	parataxis
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 snatched	obj
38	from	from	ADP	_	40 hands	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 hands	det
40	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 snatched	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 children	case
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 children	nmod:poss
43	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 hands	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 lost	punct
45	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	50 lost	mark
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 so	fixed
47	in	in	ADP	_	48 time	case
48	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 lost	obl
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 lost	nsubj
50	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 snatched	conj
51	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 succulence	nmod:poss
52	succulence	succulence	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 lost	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 became	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 became	cc
55	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 placed	conj
56	as	as	ADV	_	57 hard	advmod
57	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 became	xcomp
58	as	as	ADP	_	60 stone	case
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 stone	det
60	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 hard	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 used	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 used	cc
63	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 used	aux:pass
64	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 placed	conj
65	as	as	ADP	_	67 missile	case
66	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	67 missile	det
67	missile	missile	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 used	obl
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 Hook	punct
69	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 Hook	cc
70	Hook	hook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	conj
71	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	70 Hook	ccomp
72	over	over	ADP	_	73 it	case
73	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	71 fell	obl
74	in	in	ADP	_	76 dark	case
75	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	76 dark	det
76	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 fell	obl
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could	we				of that cake and the pirates	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cook	participle		the pirates not said here				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	eat	might	the boys	life				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	perish	infinitive	the boys not said here					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	place	past	boys = boy	life	one cunning spot	after another		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in spot=Destination
6	snatch	past	Wendy	life	the hands of Peter's children		always property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from hand=Source
7	lose	past	life	life's succulence		time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent succulence=Eventuality
8	become	past	boys = boy not said here				hard property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
9	use	past · passive	boys = boy not said here				as a missile	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»
10	hook	infinitive	we not said here					tree rules
11	fall	past	we not said here		life		in the dark	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over it=Location

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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