Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 111

But as the boys gathered round her she had no thought, of course, save for them.

Who acts: boys, porthole · What happens: gather, have, save · To what, where: thought

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 (boys, porthole), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 gathered	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boys	det
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gathered	nsubj
5	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	advcl
6	round	round	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gathered	obl
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 thought	det
11	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 save	punct
13	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	16 save	advmod
14	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 of	fixed
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 save	punct
16	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 had	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 save	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gather	past	the boys		round porthole	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	porthole	no thought		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient
3	save	infinitive	porthole not said here		for boys = boy	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for they=Source

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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