Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 25

From far within him he heard a creaking as of rusty portals, and through them came a stern tap-tap-tap, like hammering in the night when one cannot sleep.

Who acts: Hook, stern tap tap, tap, one · What happens: hear, creak, come, tap, hammer, not sleep

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 (Hook, stern tap tap, tap, one), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 far	case
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 heard	advmod
3	within	within	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 far	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 creaking	det
8	creaking	creak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 heard	xcomp
9	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	12 portals	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 as	fixed
11	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 portals	amod
12	portals	portal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 creaking	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
15	through	through	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	obl
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tap	det
19	stern	stern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tap	amod
20	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tap	nsubj
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 tap	punct
22	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tap	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 tap	punct
24	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hammering	punct
26	like	like	SCONJ	_	27 hammering	mark
27	hammering	hammer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 came	advcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 night	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 night	det
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hammering	obl
31	when	when	SCONJ	_	35 sleep	mark
32	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 sleep	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 sleep	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 sleep	advmod
35	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 hammering	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Hook		far property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	creak	gerund	Hook not said here		as rusty portals	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	a stern tap tap		through portals = portal	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through they=Initial_Location
4	tap		tap			tree rules
5	hammer	gerund	a stern tap tap not said here	night		vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
6	not sleep	can	one			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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