Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 186

Tink darted up the nearest tree; but no one followed her, for it was at this moment that the pirates made their dreadful attack upon the redskins.

Who acts: Tink, one, tree, pirates · What happens: dart up, follow, be, make, attack · To what, where: nearest tree, Tink, dreadful attack

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tink, one, tree, pirates), 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	Tink	Tink	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 darted	nsubj
2	darted	dart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 darted	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
5	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 tree	amod
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 darted	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 followed	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 followed	cc
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 followed	nsubj
11	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 darted	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 followed	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 moment	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	19 moment	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 moment	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 moment	cop
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 moment	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 moment	det
19	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 followed	parataxis
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 made	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pirates	det
22	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 made	nsubj
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 moment	advcl
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 attack	nmod:poss
25	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 attack	amod
26	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obj
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 redskins	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 redskins	det
29	redskins	redskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 made	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 darted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	dart up	past	Tink	the nearest tree			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Agent
2	follow	past	no one	Tink			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	is	past	tree		for this moment		tree rules
4	make	past	the pirates	pirates's dreadful attack		upon the redskins	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attack=Product
5	attack		pirates = pirate				nom attack «act transitive»: 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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