Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 1

The last sound Peter heard before he was quite alone were the mermaids retiring one by one to their bedchambers under the sea.

Who acts: last sound, sound · What happens: hear, retire · To what, where: one

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last sound, sound), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sound	det
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sound	amod
3	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj
4	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sound	appos
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 retiring	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 retiring	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 retiring	aux
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 alone	advmod
10	alone	alone	ADV	_	14 retiring	advmod
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 retiring	aux
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mermaids	det
13	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 retiring	nsubj
14	retiring	retire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 heard	advcl
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 retiring	obj
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 one	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 one	nmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 bedchambers	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 bedchambers	nmod:poss
20	bedchambers	bedchamber	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 one	nmod
21	under	under	ADP	_	23 sea	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sea	det
23	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bedchambers	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the last sound						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	retire	past · progressive	sound	one				by one to mermaids's bedchambers under the sea; alone property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Attribute

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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