Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 143

There was little sound to be heard but the clang of weapons, an occasional screech or splash, and Slightly monotonously counting—five—six—seven—eight—nine—ten—eleven.

Who acts: little sound · What happens: be, hear, count, clang · To what, where: five, weapons

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 (little sound), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sound	amod
4	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 heard	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 heard	aux:pass
7	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sound	acl
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 clang	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 clang	det
10	clang	clang	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 weapons	case
12	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 clang	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 screech	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 screech	det
15	occasional	occasional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 screech	amod
16	screech	screech	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clang	conj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 splash	cc
18	splash	splash	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 screech	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 counting	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 counting	cc
21	Slightly	slightly	ADV	_	23 counting	advmod
22	monotonously	monotonously	ADV	_	23 counting	advmod
23	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 was	advcl
24	—	-	PUNCT	_	25 five	punct
25	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 counting	obj
26	—	-	PUNCT	_	27 six	punct
27	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 five	conj
28	—	-	PUNCT	_	29 seven	punct
29	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 five	conj
30	—	-	PUNCT	_	31 eight	punct
31	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 five	conj
32	—	-	PUNCT	_	33 nine	punct
33	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 eight	conj
34	—	-	PUNCT	_	31 eight	punct
35	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 five	conj
36	—	-	PUNCT	_	37 eleven	punct
37	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 five	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	little sound		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	to-infinitive · passive	little sound not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»
3	count	gerund	little sound not said here	five		monotonously, slightly property	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent five=Theme
4	clang			weapons			nom clang «event transitive»: of=patient

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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