Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 136

“’Twas your own orders,” the bo’sun faltered.

Who acts: ’ Twas, own orders · What happens: order, falter

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (’ Twas, own orders), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 orders	punct
2	’	'	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Twas	compound
3	Twas	twa	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 orders	nsubj
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 orders	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 orders	amod
6	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 faltered	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 orders	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 orders	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bo’sun	det
10	bo’sun	bo'sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 faltered	nsubj
11	faltered	falter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 faltered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order in a quote		’ Twas						tree rules
2	falter	past	your own orders						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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