Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 19

Sufficient of this Hook guessed to persuade him that Peter at last lay at his mercy, but no word of the dark design that now formed in the subterranean caverns of his mind crossed his lips; he merely signed that the captives were to be conveyed to the ship, and that he would be alone.

Who acts: word, man · What happens: guess, persuade, form, cross, sign, convey · To what, where: man, last lay, dark design, subterranean caverns, lips, captives

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 (word, man), 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	Sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 crossed	advcl
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 Hook	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 Hook	det
4	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guessed	obl
5	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Sufficient	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 persuade	mark
7	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 guessed	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 persuade	obj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 Peter	mark
10	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 persuade	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 lay	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lay	amod
13	lay	lay	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 persuade	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 mercy	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mercy	nmod:poss
16	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 crossed	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 crossed	cc
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 word	det
20	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 crossed	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 design	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 design	det
23	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 design	amod
24	design	design	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 word	nmod
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 formed	nsubj:pass
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 formed	advmod
27	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 design	acl:relcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 caverns	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 caverns	det
30	subterranean	subterranean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 caverns	amod
31	caverns	cavern	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 formed	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 mind	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 mind	nmod:poss
34	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 caverns	nmod
35	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 lips	nmod:poss
37	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 crossed	obj
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 signed	punct
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 signed	nsubj
40	merely	merely	ADV	_	41 signed	advmod
41	signed	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 crossed	parataxis
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 conveyed	mark
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 captives	det
44	captives	captive	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 conveyed	nsubj:pass
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 conveyed	aux
46	to	to	PART	_	48 conveyed	mark
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 conveyed	aux:pass
48	conveyed	convey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 signed	advcl
49	to	to	ADP	_	51 ship	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 ship	det
51	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 conveyed	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 alone	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 alone	cc
54	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 alone	mark
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 alone	nsubj
56	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 alone	aux
57	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 alone	cop
58	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 signed	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 crossed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	past	no word of the dark design not said here					of this Hook	vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	persuade	to-infinitive	no word of the dark design not said here	man		last lay at man's mercy		Peter obl	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	form	participle · passive		the dark design		the subterranean caverns of man's mind	now		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	cross	past	no word of the dark design	man's lips					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient
5	sign	past	man					merely property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	convey	past · passive		the captives	the ship				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to ship=Recipient
7	is	would	man					alone property	tree rules
8	word			the dark design					nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient
9	mind		man						nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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