Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 147

Left so fearfully alone, any other man would have lain with his eyes shut where he fell: but the gigantic brain of Hook was still working, and under its guidance he crawled on the knees along the deck as far from the sound as he could go.

Who acts: force, gigantic brain, brain · What happens: leave, lie, fall, work, crawl, go · To what, where: other man, guidance

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 (force, gigantic brain, brain), 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	Left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 fearfully	advmod
3	fearfully	fearfully	ADV	_	1 Left	advmod
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Left	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lain	punct
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 man	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lain	nsubj:pass
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 lain	aux
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 lain	aux
11	lain	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Left	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 eyes	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eyes	nmod:poss
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lain	obl
15	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fell	advcl
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 fell	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fell	nsubj
18	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 eyes	acl:relcl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 working	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 working	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 brain	det
22	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 brain	amod
23	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 working	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Hook	case
25	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 brain	nmod
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 working	aux
27	still	still	ADV	_	28 working	advmod
28	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Left	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 crawled	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 crawled	cc
31	under	under	ADP	_	33 guidance	case
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 guidance	nmod:poss
33	guidance	guidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 crawled	obl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 crawled	nsubj
35	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 working	conj
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 knees	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 knees	det
38	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 crawled	obl
39	along	along	ADP	_	41 deck	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 deck	det
41	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 crawled	obl
42	as	as	ADV	_	43 far	advmod
43	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 crawled	advmod
44	from	from	ADP	_	46 sound	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 sound	det
46	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 far	obl
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 go	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 go	nsubj
49	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 go	aux
50	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 far	advcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle					alone, fearfully property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lie	would · perfect · passive		any other man			with force's eyes	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	fall	past	force					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	work	past · progressive	the gigantic brain of Hook			still		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	crawl	past	force		brain's guidance		on the knees; along the deck; far property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under guidance=Trajectory
6	go	could	force					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	guide		brain					nom guidance «communication transitive»: poss=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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