Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 144

I think all were gone when a group of savage boys surrounded Hook, who seemed to have a charmed life, as he kept them at bay in that circle of fire.

Who acts: I, all, surrounded Hook, group · What happens: think, be, surround, seem, have, charm · To what, where: charmed life, boys, bay · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, all, surrounded Hook, group), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 gone	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	cop
5	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 think	ccomp
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 gone	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 group	det
8	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 when	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 boys	case
10	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boys	amod
11	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 group	nmod
12	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 Hook	amod
13	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 boys	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seemed	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 seemed	nsubj
16	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Hook	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 have	mark
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 seemed	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 life	det
20	charmed	charm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 life	amod
21	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 kept	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 kept	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 kept	nsubj
25	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seemed	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 kept	obj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 bay	case
28	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kept	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 circle	case
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 circle	det
31	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kept	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 fire	case
33	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 circle	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	all			gone property	tree rules
3	surround	participle					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	seem	past	surrounded Hook				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	have	to-infinitive	surrounded Hook not said here	a charmed life			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient
6	charm	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	keep	past	group	boys = boy	bay	in that circle of fire	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme at bay=Location

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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