Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 142

Some of the miscreants leapt into the sea; others hid in dark recesses, where they were found by Slightly, who did not fight, but ran about with a lantern which he flashed in their faces, so that they were half blinded and fell as an easy prey to the reeking swords of the other boys.

Who acts: miscreants, others, dark recesses, lantern · What happens: leapt, hide, find, not fight, run about, flash · To what, where: sea, dark recesses, others, faces, miscreants

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 (miscreants, others, dark recesses, lantern), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 miscreants	det
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 miscreants	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 miscreants	det
4	miscreants	miscreant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 leapt	nsubj
5	leapt	leapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leapt	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 hid	punct
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hid	nsubj
11	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 leapt	parataxis
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 recesses	case
13	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 recesses	amod
14	recesses	recess	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hid	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 found	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 found	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 found	aux:pass
19	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 recesses	acl
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 Slightly	case
21	Slightly	slightly	ADV	_	19 found	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fight	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 fight	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fight	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 fight	advmod
26	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 recesses	acl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ran	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 ran	cc
29	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hid	conj
30	about	about	ADV	_	29 ran	advmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 lantern	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 lantern	det
33	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ran	obl
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 flashed	nsubj
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 flashed	nsubj
36	flashed	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 lantern	acl:relcl
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 faces	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 faces	nmod:poss
39	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 flashed	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 blinded	punct
41	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	46 blinded	mark
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 so	fixed
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 blinded	nsubj:pass
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 blinded	aux:pass
45	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	46 blinded	advmod
46	blinded	blind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 ran	parataxis
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 fell	cc
48	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 blinded	conj
49	as	as	ADP	_	52 prey	case
50	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 prey	det
51	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 prey	amod
52	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 fell	obl
53	to	to	ADP	_	56 swords	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 swords	det
55	reeking	reek	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	56 swords	amod
56	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 fell	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	60 boys	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 boys	det
59	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 boys	amod
60	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 swords	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 leapt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leapt	present	some miscreants		the sea		tree rules
2	hide	past	others		dark recesses		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in recess=Location
3	find	past · passive		others = other			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	not fight	past · do-support	dark recesses				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	run about	past	others not said here			with a lantern; about property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with lantern=Material
6	flash	past	a lantern		others's faces		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in face=Location
7	blind	past · passive		miscreants = miscreant		half property	tree rules
8	fall	past				as a easy prey; to the reeking swords of the other boys	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sword=Theme
9	reek	gerund					vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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