Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 145
The sound came steadily nearer; and in advance of it came this ghastly thought, “The crocodile is about to board the ship!”
Who acts: sound, ghastly thought, crocodile, advance · What happens: come, be, board, advance · To what, where: advance, ship
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 (sound, ghastly thought, crocodile, advance), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sound | det |
| 2 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | steadily | steadily | ADV | _ | 5 nearer | advmod |
| 5 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 came | xcomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 advance | case |
| 9 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 advance | nmod |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 thought | det |
| 14 | ghastly | ghastly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thought | amod |
| 15 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 about | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 about | punct |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 crocodile | det |
| 19 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 about | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 about | cop |
| 21 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 came | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 board | mark |
| 23 | board | board | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 about | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ship | det |
| 25 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 board | obj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the sound | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | this ghastly thought | advance of advance | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in advance=Location | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the crocodile | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | board in a quote | to-infinitive | the crocodile not said here | the ship | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme ship=Location | ||||
| 5 | advance | advance | nom advance «event intransitive»: of=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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