Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 187

Above, where all had been so still, the air was rent with shrieks and the clash of steel.

Who acts: steel · What happens: rend, clash · To what, where: air

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 (steel), 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	Above	above	ADV	_	13 rent	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 been	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 been	advmod
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 been	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 been	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 rent	aux:pass
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 still	advmod
8	still	still	ADV	_	6 been	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rent	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 air	det
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rent	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 rent	aux:pass
13	rent	rend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 shrieks	case
15	shrieks	shriek	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rent	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 clash	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 clash	det
18	clash	clash	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shrieks	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 steel	case
20	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 clash	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 rent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rend	participle · passive		the air				with shrieks and the clash of steel; above property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with shriek=Instrument
2	clash		steel						nom clash «event intransitive»: of=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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