Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 64

To his amazement Hook signed him to beat the tom-tom, and slowly there came to Smee an understanding of the dreadful wickedness of the order.

Who acts: Hook, Smee · What happens: sign, beat, come, amaze, understand · To what, where: Smee, amazement, tom tom, understanding, dreadful wickedness

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, Smee), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 amazement	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 amazement	nmod:poss
3	amazement	amazement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 signed	obl
4	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 signed	nsubj
5	signed	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 signed	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 beat	mark
8	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 signed	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tom	det
10	tom	tom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tom	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 tom	punct
12	tom	tom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beat	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
15	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 came	expl
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 signed	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Smee	case
19	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 understanding	det
21	understanding	understanding	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 wickedness	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wickedness	det
24	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 wickedness	amod
25	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 understanding	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 order	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 order	det
28	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wickedness	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 signed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sign	past	Hook	Smee	Smee's amazement			vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to amazement=Recipient
2	beat	to-infinitive	Hook not said here	the tom tom				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tom=Theme
3	come	past	Hook not said here	a understanding of the dreadful wickedness of the order		Smee; there	slowly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to smee=Initial_Location
4	amaze		Smee					nom amazement «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
5	understand			the dreadful wickedness of the order				nom understanding «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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