Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 33

It was a claw within him sharper than the iron one; and as it tore him, the perspiration dripped down his tallow countenance and streaked his doublet.

Who acts: reflection, perspiration · What happens: be, tore, drip down, streak · To what, where: claw, form, tallow countenance, doublet

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 (reflection, perspiration), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 claw	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 claw	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 claw	det
4	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	within	within	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 claw	nmod
7	sharper	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 claw	amod
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 one	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sharper	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 dripped	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 dripped	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 tore	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tore	nsubj
16	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dripped	advcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tore	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tore	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 perspiration	det
20	perspiration	perspiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dripped	nsubj
21	dripped	drip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 claw	parataxis
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 dripped	compound:prt
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 countenance	nmod:poss
24	tallow	tallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 countenance	compound
25	countenance	countenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dripped	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 streaked	cc
27	streaked	streak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dripped	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 doublet	nmod:poss
29	doublet	doublet	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 streaked	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 claw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	reflection	a claw	within form	tree rules
2	tore	past	reflection	form		tree rules
3	drip down	past	the perspiration	form's tallow countenance		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location countenance=Source
4	streak	past	the perspiration not said here	form's doublet		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location doublet=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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