Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 82

They all gathered round him in affright, so alarming was his agitation; and with a fine candour he told them what he had hitherto concealed.

Who acts: children, window · What happens: gather, be, tell, conceal · To what, where: affright, alarming agitation, children · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (children, window), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gathered	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 gathered	advmod
3	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gathered	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 affright	case
7	affright	affright	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gathered	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 agitation	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 alarming	advmod
10	alarming	alarming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 agitation	amod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 agitation	cop
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 agitation	nmod:poss
13	agitation	agitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gathered	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 told	cc
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 candour	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 candour	det
18	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 candour	amod
19	candour	candour	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 told	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	nsubj
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gathered	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	iobj
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 concealed	obj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 concealed	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 concealed	aux
26	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	_	27 concealed	advmod
27	concealed	conceal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 told	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	gather	past	children = child			affright	round window	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		window's alarming agitation				tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	window		children = child		with a fine candour	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	conceal	past · perfect	window				hitherto property	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

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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