Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 27

Thus terrible as the sudden appearance of the pirates must have been to them, they remained stationary for a moment, not a muscle moving; as if the foe had come by invitation.

Who acts: savages, muscle, foe · What happens: have, remain, move, come · To what, where: stationary

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 (savages, muscle, foe), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	2 terrible	advmod
2	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	6 appearance	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 appearance	det
5	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 appearance	amod
6	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 terrible	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 pirates	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pirates	det
9	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 appearance	nmod
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 terrible	aux
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 terrible	conj
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 have	xcomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 been	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 remained	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 remained	nsubj
17	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 terrible	parataxis
18	stationary	stationary	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 remained	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 moment	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 moment	det
21	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 remained	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 muscle	punct
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 muscle	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 muscle	det
25	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 moment	appos
26	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 muscle	acl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 come	mark
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 come	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 foe	det
31	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 come	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 come	aux
33	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 remained	conj
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 invitation	case
35	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 come	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 terrible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	infinitive					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	remain	past	savages = savage	stationary	moment		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stationary=Attribute
3	move	gerund	a muscle not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	come a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the foe			by invitation	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by invitation=Location

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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