Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 221
The others were all brave boys, and they must not be blamed for backing from the pirate captain.
Who acts: others · What happens: be, not blame, back · To what, where: brave boys, others, pirate captain
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 (others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg16:1282): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 others | det |
| 2 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 boys | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 boys | cop |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 boys | det |
| 5 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boys | amod |
| 6 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 blamed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 blamed | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 blamed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 blamed | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 blamed | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 blamed | aux:pass |
| 13 | blamed | blame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 boys | conj |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 backing | mark |
| 15 | backing | back | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 blamed | advcl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 captain | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 captain | det |
| 18 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 captain | compound |
| 19 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 backing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 boys | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the others | all brave boys | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not blame | must · passive | others = other | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | back | gerund | the pirate captain | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from captain=Trajectory |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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