Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 36

There came to him a presentiment of his early dissolution.

Who acts: Hook · What happens: come, dissolve · To what, where: presentiment, Hook

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), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 came	expl
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 presentiment	det
6	presentiment	presentiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 dissolution	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dissolution	nmod:poss
9	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dissolution	amod
10	dissolution	dissolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 presentiment	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		a presentiment of Hook's early dissolution	Hook	there			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	dissolve		Hook						nom dissolution «process transitive»: poss=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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