Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 211

First to draw blood was John, who gallantly climbed into the boat and held Starkey.

Who acts: blood, John · What happens: draw, be, climb, hold · To what, where: John, boat, Starkey

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 (blood, John), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 draw	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 draw	mark
3	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 John	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 John	cop
6	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 draw	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 climbed	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 climbed	nsubj
9	gallantly	gallantly	ADV	_	10 climbed	advmod
10	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 John	acl:relcl
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 boat	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boat	det
13	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 climbed	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 held	cc
15	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 climbed	conj
16	Starkey	Starkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 held	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 draw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	to-infinitive				first property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	blood	John			tree rules
3	climb	past	John		the boat	gallantly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into boat=Destination
4	hold	past	John not said here	Starkey			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent starkey=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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