Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 154
Then they got the strangest surprise of the Night of Nights; for it was no crocodile that was coming to their aid.
Who acts: men, surprise, crocodile · What happens: get, be, come, surprise · To what, where: strangest surprise, aid, Night
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, surprise, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 surprise | det |
| 5 | strangest | strange | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 surprise | amod |
| 6 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Night | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Night | det |
| 9 | Night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 surprise | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Nights | case |
| 11 | Nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Night | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 crocodile | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 crocodile | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 crocodile | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 crocodile | cop |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 crocodile | det |
| 17 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | conj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 coming | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 coming | aux |
| 20 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 crocodile | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 aid | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 aid | nmod:poss |
| 23 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 coming | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | men = man | the strangest surprise of the Night of Nights | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer surprise=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | surprise | for no crocodile | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past · progressive | no crocodile | men's aid | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | surprise | the Night of Nights | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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