Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 69

This puzzled the pirates, but all their other feelings were swallowed by a base delight that the enemy were about to come up the trees.

Who acts: This, base delight, enemy · What happens: puzzle, swallow, be, come up · To what, where: pirates, other feelings, base delight, trees

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 (This, base delight, enemy), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 puzzled	nsubj
2	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pirates	det
4	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 puzzled	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 swallowed	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 swallowed	cc
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 feelings	det:predet
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feelings	nmod:poss
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feelings	amod
10	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 swallowed	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 swallowed	aux:pass
12	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 puzzled	conj
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 delight	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 delight	det
15	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 delight	compound
16	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swallowed	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 about	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 enemy	det
19	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 about	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 about	cop
21	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 delight	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 come	mark
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 about	xcomp
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 come	compound:prt
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 trees	det
26	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 come	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 puzzled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	puzzle	past	This	the pirates		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pirate=Experiencer
2	swallow	past · passive	a base delight	pirates's other feelings		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	is	past	the enemy	a base delight not said here	about property	tree rules
4	come up	to-infinitive	the enemy not said here	the trees		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme

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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