Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 4

There was little sound, and none agreeable save the whir of the ship’s sewing machine at which Smee sat, ever industrious and obliging, the essence of the commonplace, pathetic Smee.

Who acts: little sound, none, Smee, sewing machine · What happens: be, save, sit, oblige, whir · To what, where: whir, sewing machine

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 (little sound, none, Smee, sewing machine), 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 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sound	amod
4	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 save	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 save	cc
7	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	9 save	nsubj
8	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 none	amod
9	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 was	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 whir	det
11	whir	whir	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 save	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	17 machine	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ship	det
14	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 machine	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 ship	case
16	sewing	sewing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 machine	compound
17	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 whir	nmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 sat	obl
20	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 sat	nsubj
21	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 machine	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 industrious	punct
23	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 industrious	advmod
24	industrious	industrious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sat	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 obliging	cc
26	obliging	oblige	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 industrious	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 essence	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 essence	det
29	essence	essence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 whir	appos
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 commonplace	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 commonplace	det
32	commonplace	commonplace	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 essence	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Smee	punct
34	pathetic	pathetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Smee	amod
35	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 commonplace	appos
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	little sound		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	save	infinitive	none	the whir of the ship's sewing machine		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whir=Theme
3	sit	past	Smee		the ship's sewing machine	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at which=Location
4	oblige	gerund	Smee not said here			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	whir		the ship's sewing machine			nom whir «event intransitive»: of=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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