Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 60

The pirates, listening avidly at the mouths of the trees, heard the question put by every boy, and alas, they also heard Peter’s answer.

Who acts: pirates, Peter · What happens: listen, hear, put, answer · To what, where: question, answer

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 (pirates, Peter), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pirates	det
2	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 heard	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 listening	punct
4	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 pirates	acl
5	avidly	avidly	ADV	_	4 listening	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 mouths	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mouths	det
8	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 listening	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 trees	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trees	det
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mouths	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 pirates	punct
13	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 question	det
15	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	obj
16	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 question	acl
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 boy	case
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 boy	det
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl:agent
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 alas	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 alas	cc
22	alas	ala	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 heard	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 heard	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 heard	nsubj
25	also	also	ADV	_	26 heard	advmod
26	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	conj
27	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 answer	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 Peter	case
29	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heard	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	listen	gerund	the pirates not said here		at the mouths of the trees; avidly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at mouth=Theme
2	hear	past	the pirates	the question	alas obl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer question=Stimulus
3	put	participle		the question not said here		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	hear	past	pirates = pirate	Peter's answer		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus
5	answer		Peter			nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=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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