Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 58

What arrested him was this reflection:

Who acts: reflection · What happens: arrest, be · To what, where: form, reflection

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), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 arrested	nsubj
2	arrested	arrest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reflection	csubj
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 arrested	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reflection	cop
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 reflection	det
6	reflection	reflection	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 reflection	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrest	past	this reflection	form					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	is a	past		this reflection					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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