Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 7

A few of the pirates leant over the bulwarks, drinking in the miasma of the night; others sprawled by barrels over games of dice and cards; and the exhausted four who had carried the little house lay prone on the deck, where even in their sleep they rolled skillfully to this side or that out of Hook’s reach, lest he should claw them mechanically in passing.

Who acts: bulwarks, little house, cards · What happens: drink, sprawl, exhaust, carry, lie, roll · To what, where: miasma, others, games, four, prone, deck

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 (bulwarks, little house, cards), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 few	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 leant	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 leant	det
5	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 leant	compound
6	leant	leant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 few	obl
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 bulwarks	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bulwarks	det
9	bulwarks	bulwark	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 leant	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 drinking	punct
11	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 bulwarks	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 miasma	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 miasma	det
14	miasma	miasma	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drinking	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 night	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 night	det
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 miasma	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 others	punct
19	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 leant	nmod
20	sprawled	sprawl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 others	acl
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 barrels	case
22	barrels	barrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sprawled	obl
23	over	over	ADP	_	24 games	case
24	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sprawled	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 dice	case
26	dice	dice	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 games	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cards	cc
28	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 dice	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 the	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 the	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 few	conj
32	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 the	acl
33	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 carried	nsubj:pass
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 carried	nsubj:pass
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 carried	aux
36	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 exhausted	parataxis
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 house	det
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 house	amod
39	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lay	nsubj
40	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 carried	parataxis
41	prone	prone	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lay	obj
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 deck	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 deck	det
44	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lay	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 rolled	punct
46	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	52 rolled	advmod
47	even	even	ADV	_	50 sleep	advmod
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 sleep	case
49	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 sleep	nmod:poss
50	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 rolled	obl
51	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 rolled	nsubj
52	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 lay	parataxis
53	skillfully	skillfully	ADV	_	52 rolled	advmod
54	to	to	ADP	_	56 side	case
55	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	56 side	det
56	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 rolled	obl
57	or	or	CCONJ	_	58 that	cc
58	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	56 side	nmod
59	out	out	ADP	_	63 reach	case
60	of	of	ADP	_	63 reach	case
61	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	63 reach	nmod:poss
62	’s	's	PART	_	61 Hook	case
63	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 that	nmod
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 claw	punct
65	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	68 claw	case
66	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 claw	nsubj
67	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	68 claw	aux
68	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 rolled	obl
69	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 claw	obj
70	mechanically	mechanically	ADV	_	52 rolled	advmod
71	in	in	ADP	_	72 passing	case
72	passing	passing	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 rolled	obl
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 few	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund	the bulwarks not said here		the miasma of the night		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sprawl	participle		others not said here	games of dice and cards	by barrels	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by barrel=Location
3	exhaust	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	carry	past · perfect · passive		four			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	lie	past	the little house	prone	the deck		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prone=Theme
6	roll	past	cards = card		cards's sleep	to this side that; lest claw; in passing; mechanically, skillfully property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in sleep=Source to side=Trajectory in passing=Destination
7	sleep		cards = card				nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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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