Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 31

Intently he listened for any sound from the nether world, but all was as silent below as above; the house under the ground seemed to be but one more empty tenement in the void.

Who acts: thing, all, house · What happens: listen, be, seem

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 (thing, all, house), 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	Intently	intently	ADV	_	3 listened	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 listened	nsubj
3	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 sound	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 sound	det
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 listened	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
9	nether	nether	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 world	amod
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sound	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 silent	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 silent	cc
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 silent	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 silent	cop
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 silent	case
16	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 listened	conj
17	below	below	ADV	_	19 above	advmod
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 above	advmod
19	above	above	ADV	_	16 silent	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 seemed	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 house	det
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seemed	nsubj
23	under	under	ADP	_	25 ground	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ground	det
25	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 house	nmod
26	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 listened	parataxis
27	to	to	PART	_	28 be	mark
28	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 seemed	xcomp
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 tenement	cc
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 tenement	nummod
31	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 tenement	amod
32	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 tenement	amod
33	tenement	tenement	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seemed	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 void	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 void	det
36	void	void	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tenement	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	listen	past	thing	for any sound from the nether world; intently property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for sound=Theme
2	is	past	all	above, silent property	tree rules
3	seem	past	the house under the ground		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	be	to-infinitive	the house under the ground not said here		vn exist-47.1 «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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