Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 35

The children had discovered the glittering hoard, and when in a mischievous mood used to fling showers of moidores, diamonds, pearls and pieces of eight to the gulls, who pounced upon them for food, and then flew away, raging at the scurvy trick that had been played upon them.

Who acts: gulls · What happens: discover, glitter, use, fling, pounce, fly away · To what, where: children, mischievous mood, showers, scurvy trick

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 (gulls), 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	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 discovered	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 discovered	aux
4	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hoard	det
6	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 hoard	amod
7	hoard	hoard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 discovered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 flew	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 flew	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	42 flew	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 mood	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mood	det
13	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mood	amod
14	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 flew	obl
15	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 mood	acl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 fling	mark
17	fling	fling	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 used	advcl
18	showers	shower	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fling	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 moidores	case
20	moidores	moidore	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 showers	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 diamonds	punct
22	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 showers	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pearls	punct
24	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 showers	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pieces	cc
26	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 showers	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 eight	case
28	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 pieces	nmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 gulls	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 gulls	det
31	gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 eight	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 pounced	punct
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 pounced	nsubj
34	pounced	pounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 gulls	acl:relcl
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 pounced	obl
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 food	case
38	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pounced	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 flew	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 flew	cc
41	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 flew	advmod
42	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 discovered	parataxis
43	away	away	ADV	_	42 flew	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 raging	punct
45	raging	rage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 flew	advcl
46	at	at	ADP	_	49 trick	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 trick	det
48	scurvy	scurvy	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 trick	compound
49	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 raging	obl
50	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 played	nsubj:pass
51	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 played	aux
52	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	53 played	aux:pass
53	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 trick	acl:relcl
54	upon	upon	ADP	_	55 them	case
55	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 played	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 discovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discover	past · perfect · passive		the children				tree rules
2	glitter	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	use	participle		a mischievous mood not said here				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fling	to-infinitive		showers of moidores and diamonds and pearls and pieces of eight to the gulls				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shower=Theme
5	pounce	past	the gulls				upon children = child; for food	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Trajectory
6	fly away	past			a mischievous mood	then	away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mood=Location
7	rage	gerund			the scurvy trick			vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at trick=Location
8	play	past · perfect · passive		the scurvy trick			upon children = child	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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