Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 147

He had lifted up one boy with his hook, and was using him as a buckler, when another, who had just passed his sword through Mullins, sprang into the fray.

Who acts: group · What happens: lift up, use, pass, spring · To what, where: group, another, Mullins, fray

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lifted	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lifted	aux
3	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 lifted	compound:prt
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 boy	nummod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lifted	obl:agent
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 hook	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hook	nmod:poss
9	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boy	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 using	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 using	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 using	aux
13	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lifted	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 using	obj
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 buckler	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 buckler	det
17	buckler	buckler	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 using	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 passed	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 passed	advmod
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 passed	nsubj:pass
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 passed	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 passed	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 passed	aux
24	just	just	ADV	_	25 passed	advmod
25	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lifted	conj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 sword	nmod:poss
27	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 passed	obj
28	through	through	ADP	_	29 Mullins	case
29	Mullins	Mullins	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 passed	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sprang	punct
31	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lifted	conj
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 fray	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fray	det
34	fray	fray	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sprang	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lift up	past · perfect	group				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	use	past · progressive	group not said here	group		as a buckler	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Duration as buckler=Attribute
3	pass	past · perfect · passive		another	Mullins		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient sword=Theme
4	spring	past	group not said here		the fray		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into fray=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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