Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 14

Every foot of ground between the spot where Hook had landed his forces and the home under the trees was stealthily examined by braves wearing their mocassins with the heels in front.

Who acts: Hook, braves · What happens: land, examine, wear · To what, where: forces, trees, foot, mocassins

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 (Hook, braves), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 foot	det
2	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 examined	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 ground	case
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 foot	nmod
5	between	between	ADP	_	7 spot	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spot	det
7	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 foot	nmod
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 landed	advmod
9	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 landed	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 landed	aux
11	landed	land	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 spot	acl:relcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 forces	nmod:poss
13	forces	force	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 landed	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 home	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 home	det
16	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forces	conj
17	under	under	ADP	_	19 trees	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 trees	det
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 landed	obl
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 examined	aux:pass
21	stealthily	stealthily	ADV	_	22 examined	advmod
22	examined	examine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 braves	case
24	braves	brave	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 examined	obl
25	wearing	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 braves	acl
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mocassins	nmod:poss
27	mocassins	mocassin	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 wearing	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 heels	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 heels	det
30	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 wearing	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 front	case
32	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 heels	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 examined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	land	past · perfect	Hook	Hook's forces and the home	the trees		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent force=Theme under tree=Destination
2	examine	past · passive	braves	every foot of ground between the spot		stealthily property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	wear	gerund	braves not said here	Piccaninnies's mocassins		with the heels in front	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mocassin=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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