Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 1

One green light squinting over Kidd’s Creek, which is near the mouth of the pirate river, marked where the brig, the _Jolly Roger_, lay, low in the water; a rakish-looking craft foul to the hull, every beam in her detestable, like ground strewn with mangled feathers.

Who acts: One green light, Creek · What happens: squint, be, mark, lay, look, mangle · To what, where: mouth

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One green light, Creek), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 light	nummod
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 light	amod
3	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	squinting	squint	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 light	acl
5	over	over	ADP	_	8 Creek	case
6	Kidd	Kidd	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Creek	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Kidd	case
8	Creek	Creek	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 squinting	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mouth	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 mouth	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 mouth	cop
12	near	near	ADP	_	14 mouth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mouth	det
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Creek	appos
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 river	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 river	det
17	pirate	pirate	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 river	compound
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mouth	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 marked	punct
20	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 light	conj
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 marked	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 brig	det
23	brig	brig	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 where	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Jolly	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Jolly	det
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 Jolly	punct
27	Jolly	Jolly	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 brig	appos
28	Roger	Roger	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Jolly	flat
29	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 Jolly	punct
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lay	punct
31	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 Jolly	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 low	punct
33	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lay	advmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 water	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 water	det
36	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 low	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 foul	punct
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 foul	det
39	rakish	rakish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 looking	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 rakish	punct
41	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 foul	amod
42	craft	craft	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 foul	compound
43	foul	foul	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lay	parataxis
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 hull	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 hull	det
46	hull	hull	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 foul	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 beam	punct
48	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	49 beam	det
49	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 foul	conj
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 detestable	case
51	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 detestable	nmod:poss
52	detestable	detestable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 beam	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 ground	punct
54	like	like	ADP	_	55 ground	case
55	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 detestable	obl
56	strewn	strewn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 ground	amod
57	with	with	ADP	_	59 feathers	case
58	mangled	mangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 feathers	amod
59	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 strewn	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 light	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	squint	gerund	One green light not said here		over Kidd's Creek	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over creek=Theme
2	is	present	Kidd's Creek	the mouth	of the pirate river	tree rules
3	mark	participle				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lay	present				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	look	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	mangle	participle				vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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