Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 5
Through the long black night the savage scouts wriggle, snake-like, among the grass without stirring a blade.
Who acts: savage scouts · What happens: wriggle, stir · To what, where: blade
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 (savage scouts), 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 night | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 night | amod |
| 4 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 night | amod |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wriggle | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 scouts | det |
| 7 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 scouts | amod |
| 8 | scouts | scout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wriggle | nsubj |
| 9 | wriggle | wriggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
| 11 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 like | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 snake | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wriggle | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 grass | punct |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 grass | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 grass | det |
| 17 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wriggle | obl |
| 18 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 19 stirring | mark |
| 19 | stirring | stir | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 wriggle | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 blade | det |
| 21 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stirring | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wriggle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wriggle | present | the savage scouts | night | among the grass | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | stir | gerund | the savage scouts not said here | a blade | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus blade=Experiencer |
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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