Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 84

Or again, we might choose Peter’s defiance of the lions, when he drew a circle round him on the ground with an arrow and dared them to cross it; and though he waited for hours, with the other boys and Wendy looking on breathlessly from trees, not one of them dared to accept his challenge.

Who acts: we, upshot, other boys · What happens: choose, draw, dare, cross, wait, look · To what, where: defiance, circle, ground, lions, challenge

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, upshot, other boys), 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	_	6 choose	cc
2	again	again	ADV	_	6 choose	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 again	punct
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 choose	nsubj
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 choose	aux
6	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 defiance	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Peter	case
9	defiance	defiance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 choose	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 lions	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lions	det
12	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 defiance	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drew	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 drew	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 drew	nsubj
16	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 choose	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 circle	det
18	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drew	obj
19	round	round	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 drew	obl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 ground	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ground	det
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drew	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 arrow	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 arrow	det
26	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drew	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 dared	cc
28	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 drew	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dared	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 cross	mark
31	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 dared	xcomp
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 cross	obj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 waited	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 waited	cc
35	though	though	SCONJ	_	37 waited	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 waited	nsubj
37	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 choose	parataxis
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 hours	case
39	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 waited	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 boys	punct
41	with	with	ADP	_	44 boys	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 boys	det
43	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 boys	amod
44	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 dared	nsubj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 Wendy	cc
46	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 boys	conj
47	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 boys	acl
48	on	on	ADP	_	51 trees	case
49	breathlessly	breathlessly	ADV	_	51 trees	advmod
50	from	from	ADP	_	51 trees	case
51	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 looking	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 one	punct
53	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	54 one	advmod
54	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 trees	conj
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 them	case
56	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 one	nmod
57	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 waited	conj
58	to	to	PART	_	59 accept	mark
59	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 dared	xcomp
60	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 challenge	nmod:poss
61	challenge	challenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 accept	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 choose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	might	we	Peter's defiance of the lions		again		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent defiance=Theme
2	draw	past	upshot	a circle	the ground		round Tinker; with a arrow	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent circle=Theme on ground=Destination
3	dare	past	upshot not said here	lions = lion				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	cross	to-infinitive	upshot not said here	circle				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	wait	past	upshot			hour		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	look	gerund	the other boys and Wendy not said here				on trees	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on tree=Theme
7	dare	past	the other boys and Wendy					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	accept	to-infinitive	the other boys and Wendy not said here	upshot's challenge				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme
9	challenge		upshot					nom challenge «state transitive»: poss=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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