Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 140

They all heard it—pirates, boys, Wendy; and immediately every head was blown in one direction; not to the water whence the sound proceeded, but toward Hook.

Who acts: Tootles, sound · What happens: hear, blow, proceed · To what, where: intention, head, water

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 (Tootles, sound), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 heard	advmod
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	obj
5	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 pirates	punct
6	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heard	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 boys	punct
8	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pirates	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Wendy	punct
10	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pirates	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 blown	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 blown	cc
13	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	17 blown	advmod
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 head	det
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blown	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 blown	aux:pass
17	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 heard	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 direction	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 direction	nummod
20	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blown	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 water	punct
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 water	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 water	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 water	det
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blown	obl
26	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	29 proceeded	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sound	det
28	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 proceeded	nsubj
29	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 water	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Hook	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 Hook	cc
32	toward	toward	ADP	_	33 Hook	case
33	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blown	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Tootles = tootle	intention		pirates Wendy and boys obl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	blow	past · passive		every head	the water	toward Hook; in one direction; immediately property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in direction=Topic to water=Recipient
3	proceed	past	the sound			whence property	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent

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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