Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 9

So the chill hours wear on, and the long suspense is horribly trying to the paleface who has to live through it for the first time; but to the trained hand those ghastly calls and still ghastlier silences are but an intimation of how the night is marching.

Who acts: chill hours, long suspense, paleface, ghastly calls, night · What happens: wear on, try, have, live, train, be · To what, where: suspense, intimation

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 (chill hours, long suspense, paleface, ghastly calls), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 wear	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hours	det
3	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hours	compound
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wear	nsubj
5	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADV	_	5 wear	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 trying	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 trying	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 suspense	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 suspense	amod
11	suspense	suspense	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trying	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 trying	aux
13	horribly	horribly	ADV	_	14 trying	advmod
14	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 wear	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 paleface	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 paleface	det
17	paleface	paleface	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trying	obl
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 has	nsubj
19	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 paleface	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 live	mark
21	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 has	xcomp
22	through	through	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 live	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 time	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 time	det
26	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 time	amod
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 live	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 intimation	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 intimation	cc
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 hand	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hand	det
32	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 hand	amod
33	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 intimation	obl
34	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	36 calls	det
35	ghastly	ghastly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 calls	amod
36	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 intimation	nsubj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 silences	cc
38	still	still	ADV	_	39 ghastlier	advmod
39	ghastlier	ghastly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 silences	amod
40	silences	silence	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 calls	conj
41	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 intimation	cop
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 intimation	cc
43	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 intimation	det
44	intimation	intimation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wear	parataxis
45	of	of	SCONJ	_	50 marching	mark
46	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	50 marching	advmod
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 night	det
48	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 marching	nsubj
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 marching	aux
50	marching	march	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 intimation	advcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear on	present	the chill hours					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
2	try	present · progressive	the long suspense				to the paleface; horribly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	have	present	the paleface					tree rules
4	live	to-infinitive	the paleface not said here		suspense	time		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Location
5	train	participle						vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	that ghastly calls and ghastlier silences	a intimation			to the trained hand	tree rules
7	march	present · progressive	the night					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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