Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 141

All knew that what was about to happen concerned him alone, and that from being actors they were suddenly become spectators.

What happens: know, be, happen, concern, become · To what, where: that, sound, actors

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: 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 knew	advmod
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 concerned	mark
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 about	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 about	cop
6	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 concerned	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 happen	mark
8	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 about	xcomp
9	concerned	concern	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 concerned	obj
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 concerned	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 that	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 that	cc
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 knew	obl
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 actors	case
16	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 actors	cop
17	actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 that	nmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 become	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 become	aux:pass
20	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	21 become	advmod
21	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 actors	acl:relcl
22	spectators	spectator	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 become	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	that			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past			about property	tree rules
3	happen	to-infinitive				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	concern	past	sound		alone property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
5	is	gerund		actors		tree rules
6	become	past · passive	actors = actor		suddenly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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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