Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 153

A light fall of snow had obliterated all footmarks; and a deathly silence pervaded the island, as if for a space Nature stood still in horror of the recent carnage.

Who acts: deathly silence · What happens: obliterate, pervade, stand · To what, where: light fall, island, horror

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deathly silence), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fall	det
2	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fall	amod
3	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 obliterated	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 snow	case
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fall	nmod
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 obliterated	aux
7	obliterated	obliterate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 footmarks	det
9	footmarks	footmark	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 obliterated	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 pervaded	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pervaded	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 silence	det
13	deathly	deathly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 silence	amod
14	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pervaded	nsubj
15	pervaded	pervade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 obliterated	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 island	det
17	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pervaded	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stood	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 stood	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 stood	mark
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 space	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 space	det
23	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stood	obl
24	Nature	Nature	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 space	appos
25	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 pervaded	conj
26	still	still	ADV	_	25 stood	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 horror	case
28	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stood	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 carnage	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 carnage	det
31	recent	recent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 carnage	amod
32	carnage	carnage	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 horror	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 obliterated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obliterate	past · perfect · passive		a light fall of snow				tree rules
2	pervade	past	a deathly silence	the island				tree rules
3	stand a condition, not said to happen	past	a deathly silence not said here		horror of the recent carnage	still	for a space	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in horror=Location

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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