Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 51

He stood silent at the foot of the tree looking across the chamber at his enemy.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: stand, look · To what, where: foot

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 (Peter), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stood	xcomp
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 foot	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 foot	det
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 foot	nmod
10	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stood	advcl
11	across	across	ADP	_	13 chamber	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chamber	det
13	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looking	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 enemy	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 enemy	nmod:poss
16	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looking	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Peter			the foot of the tree		silent property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location
2	look	gerund	Peter not said here					at Peter's enemy; across the chamber	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent across chamber=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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