Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 52

She was to be left on the rock to perish, an end to one of her race more terrible than death by fire or torture, for is it not written in the book of the tribe that there is no path through water to the happy hunting-ground?

Who acts: fire, path, Tiger · What happens: leave, perish, not write, be, race · To what, where: Tiger, rock, torture, book

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 (fire, path, Tiger), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux:pass
3	to	to	PART	_	5 left	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 left	aux:pass
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 rock	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rock	det
8	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 perish	mark
10	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 rock	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 end	punct
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 one	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 terrible	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 race	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 race	nmod:poss
18	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 one	nmod
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 terrible	advmod
20	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 end	acl:relcl
21	than	than	ADP	_	22 death	case
22	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 terrible	obl
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 fire	case
24	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 torture	cc
26	torture	torture	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fire	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 written	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 written	mark
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 written	aux:pass
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 written	nsubj:pass
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 written	advmod
32	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 left	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 book	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 book	det
35	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 written	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 tribe	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 tribe	det
38	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 book	nmod
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 is	mark
40	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	41 is	expl
41	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 written	advcl
42	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	43 path	det
43	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 is	nsubj
44	through	through	ADP	_	45 water	case
45	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 path	nmod
46	to	to	ADP	_	51 ground	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 ground	det
48	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 ground	amod
49	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 ground	compound
50	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 hunting	punct
51	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 path	nmod
52	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	leave	past · passive	fire or torture	Tiger	the rock	a end	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on rock=Location
2	perish	to-infinitive	fire or torture not said here				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	not write	present · passive		torture	the book of the tribe		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in book=Destination
4	be	present	no path through water to the happy hunting ground		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	race		Tiger				nom race «event intransitive»: 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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