Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 191

All arms were extended to him, as if suddenly blown in his direction; they were beseeching him mutely not to desert them.

Who acts: arms · What happens: extend, blow, beseech, not desert · To what, where: arms, Bell, direction

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 (arms), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 arms	det
2	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 extended	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 extended	aux:pass
4	extended	extend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 extended	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 blown	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 blown	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 blown	mark
10	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	11 blown	advmod
11	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 extended	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 direction	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 direction	nmod:poss
14	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blown	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 beseeching	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 beseeching	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 beseeching	aux
18	beseeching	beseech	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 extended	advcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 beseeching	obj
20	mutely	mutely	ADV	_	18 beseeching	advmod
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 desert	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 desert	mark
23	desert	desert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 beseeching	advcl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 desert	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 extended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	extend	past · passive		all arms	Bell			vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient
2	blow a condition, not said to happen	participle				Bell's direction	suddenly property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	beseech	past · progressive	arms = arm	Bell			mutely property	tree rules
4	not desert	to-infinitive	arms = arm not said here	arms = arm				vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme they=Source

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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