Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 160

Now he crawled forward like a snake, and again erect, he darted across a space on which the moonlight played, one finger on his lip and his dagger at the ready.

Who acts: silence, moonlight · What happens: crawl, dart, play · To what, where: space

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 (silence, moonlight), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 crawled	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crawled	nsubj
3	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	forward	forward	ADV	_	3 crawled	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 snake	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 snake	det
7	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crawled	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 erect	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 erect	cc
10	again	again	ADV	_	11 erect	advmod
11	erect	erect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crawled	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 darted	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 darted	nsubj
14	darted	dart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crawled	conj
15	across	across	ADP	_	17 space	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 space	det
17	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 darted	obl
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 played	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 moonlight	det
21	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 played	nsubj
22	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 space	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 finger	punct
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 finger	nummod
25	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 space	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 lip	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 lip	nmod:poss
28	lip	lip	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 darted	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 dagger	cc
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 dagger	nmod:poss
31	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lip	conj
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 ready	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ready	det
34	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 darted	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crawled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl	past	silence		now	like a snake; forward property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dart	past	silence	a space and one finger		on silence's lip and silence's dagger; at the ready	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across space=Trajectory
3	play	past	the moonlight	a space and one finger			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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