Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 158

The crocodile passed him, but not another living thing, not a sound, not a movement; and yet he knew well that sudden death might be at the next tree, or stalking him from behind.

Who acts: crocodile, silence, sudden death · What happens: pass, know, be, stalk · To what, where: silence, next tree · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (crocodile, silence, sudden death), 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 crocodile	det
2	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 passed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thing	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 thing	cc
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 thing	advmod
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 thing	det
9	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thing	compound
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sound	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 sound	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sound	det
14	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thing	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 movement	punct
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 movement	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 movement	det
18	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sound	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 knew	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 knew	cc
21	yet	yet	ADV	_	23 knew	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 knew	nsubj
23	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	parataxis
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 knew	advmod
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 tree	mark
26	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 death	amod
27	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tree	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 tree	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 tree	cop
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 tree	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 tree	det
32	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 tree	amod
33	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 knew	ccomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 stalking	punct
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 stalking	cc
36	stalking	stalk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 knew	advcl
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 stalking	obj
38	from	from	ADP	_	39 behind	case
39	behind	behind	ADV	_	36 stalking	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	the crocodile	silence			another living thing a sound and a movement obl	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Trajectory
2	know	past	silence			yet	well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	might	sudden death		the next tree			tree rules
4	stalk	gerund	silence not said here	silence				vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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