Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 43

For long he muttered to himself, staring at Smee, who was hemming placidly, under the conviction that all children feared him.

Who acts: Hook, children · What happens: mutter, stare, hem, fear · To what, where: Hook, conviction

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, children), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 long	case
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 muttered	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 muttered	nsubj
4	muttered	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 himself	case
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 muttered	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 staring	punct
8	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 muttered	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 Smee	case
10	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 staring	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hemming	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 hemming	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hemming	aux
14	hemming	hem	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 staring	conj
15	placidly	placidly	ADV	_	14 hemming	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 conviction	punct
17	under	under	ADP	_	19 conviction	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 conviction	det
19	conviction	conviction	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hemming	obl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 feared	obj
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 children	det
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 feared	nsubj
23	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 conviction	acl:relcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 feared	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 muttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	mutter speech: assert	past	Hook		Hook			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
2	stare	gerund	Hook not said here				at Smee	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at smee=Theme
3	hem	past · progressive				the conviction	placidly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fear	past	all children	the conviction				tree rules

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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