Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 10

Peter reached the shore without mishap, and went straight on, his legs encountering the water as if quite unaware that they had entered a new element.

Who acts: Peter, legs · What happens: reach, go, encounter, enter · To what, where: shore, water, new element

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, legs), 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	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reached	nsubj
2	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shore	det
4	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reached	obj
5	without	without	ADP	_	6 mishap	case
6	mishap	mishap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reached	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reached	parataxis
10	straight	straight	ADV	_	11 on	advmod
11	on	on	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 encountering	punct
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 legs	nmod:poss
14	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 encountering	nsubj
15	encountering	encounter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 went	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 water	det
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 encountering	obj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 unaware	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 unaware	mark
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 unaware	advmod
21	unaware	unaware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 encountering	advcl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 entered	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 entered	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 entered	aux
25	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 unaware	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 element	det
27	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 element	amod
28	element	element	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 entered	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reach	past	Peter	the shore	without mishap	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme
2	go	past				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	encounter	gerund	Peter's legs	the water		vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus
4	enter	past · perfect	legs = leg	a new element		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme element=Destination

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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