Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 153

Only when Hook was hidden from them did curiosity loosen the limbs of the boys so that they could rush to the ship’s side to see the crocodile climbing it.

Who acts: curiosity, men, crocodile · What happens: hide, loosen, rush, see, climb · To what, where: Hook, limbs, crocodile

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 (curiosity, men, crocodile), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	5 hidden	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 hidden	advmod
3	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hidden	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hidden	aux:pass
5	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 loosen	advcl
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hidden	obl
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 loosen	aux
9	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 loosen	nsubj
10	loosen	loosen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 limbs	det
12	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 loosen	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 boys	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boys	det
15	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 limbs	nmod
16	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	20 rush	mark
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 so	fixed
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 rush	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 rush	aux
20	rush	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 loosen	advcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	25 side	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ship	det
23	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 side	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 ship	case
25	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rush	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 rush	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 crocodile	det
29	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 see	obj
30	climbing	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 crocodile	acl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 climbing	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 loosen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hide	past · passive		Hook	from men = man	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from they=Beneficiary
2	loosen	past · do-support	curiosity	the limbs of the boys		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent limb=Patient
3	rush	could	men = man		to the ship's side result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to side=Result
4	see	to-infinitive	men = man not said here	the crocodile		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crocodile=Stimulus
5	climb	gerund	the crocodile not said here	crocodile		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=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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