Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 30

There crowded upon her all the stories she had been told of Marooners’ Rock, so called because evil captains put sailors on it and leave them there to drown.

Who acts: evil captains · What happens: tell, call, put, leave, drown · To what, where: crowded stories, Rock, sailors, place · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (evil captains), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 crowded	expl
2	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stories	amod
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crowded	obl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 stories	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stories	det
7	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 told	nsubj:pass
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 told	aux:pass
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Marooners	case
13	Marooners	Marooner	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 Rock	nmod:poss
14	’	's	PART	_	13 Marooners	case
15	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	iobj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 called	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 called	advmod
18	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 told	parataxis
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 put	mark
20	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 captains	amod
21	captains	captain	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 put	nsubj
22	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 called	advcl
23	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 put	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 put	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 leave	cc
27	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 put	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 leave	obj
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 leave	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 drown	mark
31	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 leave	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		all crowded stories	Marooners's Rock		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient rock=Topic
2	call	participle					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	put	past	evil captains	sailors		place	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sailor=Theme on it=Destination
4	leave	infinitive	evil captains not said here	sailors = sailor		there	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	drown	to-infinitive	evil captains not said here				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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