Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 13

With that alertness of the senses which is at once the marvel and despair of civilised peoples, they knew that the pirates were on the island from the moment one of them trod on a dry stick; and in an incredibly short space of time the coyote cries began.

Who acts: senses, Piccaninnies, pirates, island, coyote, short space · What happens: be, civilise, know, tread, cry, begin · To what, where: marvel, island, dry stick, time · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (senses, Piccaninnies, pirates, island), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 alertness	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 alertness	det
3	alertness	alertness	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 knew	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 senses	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 senses	det
6	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 alertness	nmod
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 marvel	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 marvel	cop
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 marvel	case
10	once	once	SCONJ	_	12 marvel	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 marvel	det
12	marvel	marvel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 senses	acl:relcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 despair	cc
14	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 marvel	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 peoples	case
16	civilised	civilise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 peoples	amod
17	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 despair	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 alertness	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 knew	nsubj
20	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 island	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 pirates	det
23	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 island	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 island	cop
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 island	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 island	det
27	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 knew	ccomp
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 moment	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 moment	det
30	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 trod	obl
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 moment	flat
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 one	nmod
34	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 island	acl:relcl
35	on	on	ADP	_	38 stick	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 stick	det
37	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 stick	amod
38	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 trod	obl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 began	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 space	cc
41	in	in	ADP	_	45 space	case
42	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 space	det
43	incredibly	incredibly	ADV	_	44 short	advmod
44	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 space	amod
45	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 began	nsubj
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 time	case
47	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 space	nmod
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 coyote	det
49	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 cries	nsubj
50	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 time	acl:relcl
51	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 knew	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the senses		the marvel and despair of civilised peoples			tree rules
2	civilise	participle						tree rules
3	know	past	Piccaninnies = piccaninny				with that alertness of the senses	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	the pirates		the island			tree rules
5	tread	past	the island not said here		a dry stick	moment		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stick=Trajectory
6	cry speech: express	present	the coyote	time not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Topic
7	begin	past	a short space of time					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
8	despair		civilised peoples					nom despair «state 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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