Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 150
They gathered round him, all eyes averted from the thing that was coming aboard.
Who acts: men, thing · What happens: gather, avert, come · To what, where: eyes, thing
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 (men, thing), 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 | 2 gathered | nsubj |
| 2 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gathered | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 eyes | punct |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 eyes | det |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gathered | obl |
| 8 | averted | avert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 eyes | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 thing | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 thing | det |
| 11 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 averted | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 coming | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 coming | aux |
| 14 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 thing | acl:relcl |
| 15 | aboard | aboard | ADV | _ | 14 coming | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | men = man | all eyes | round force | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | avert | participle | all eyes not said here | the thing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past · progressive | the thing | aboard property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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