Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 59

Though a light from the one lamp shone dimly on the bed, Hook stood in darkness himself, and at the first stealthy step forward he discovered an obstacle, the door of Slightly’s tree.

Who acts: Hook · What happens: shine, stand, discover · To what, where: bed, Hook, darkness, obstacle

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 (Hook), 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	Though	though	ADP	_	3 light	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 light	det
3	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shone	obl
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 lamp	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lamp	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lamp	compound
7	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 light	nmod
8	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	dimly	dimly	ADV	_	8 shone	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 bed	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bed	det
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shone	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stood	punct
14	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 stood	nsubj
15	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shone	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 darkness	case
17	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stood	obl
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 stood	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 discovered	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 discovered	cc
21	at	at	ADP	_	25 step	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 step	det
23	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 step	amod
24	stealthy	stealthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 step	amod
25	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 discovered	obl
26	forward	forward	ADV	_	28 discovered	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 discovered	nsubj
28	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shone	conj
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 obstacle	det
30	obstacle	obstacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 discovered	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 door	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 door	det
33	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 obstacle	appos
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 tree	case
35	Slightly	Slightly	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 tree	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 Slightly	case
37	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 door	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	past			the bed	though a light from the one lamp; dimly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bed=Location
2	stand	past	Hook	Hook	darkness		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in darkness=Location
3	discover	past	Hook	a obstacle		at the first stealthy step; forward property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent obstacle=Topic

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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