Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 15

On the contrary, he thought he had scaled her side as noiseless as a mouse; and he was amazed to see the pirates cowering from him, with Hook in their midst as abject as if he had heard the crocodile.

Who acts: human, pirates · What happens: think, scale, be, see, cower, hear · To what, where: side, pirates, crocodile · 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 (human, pirates), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 contrary	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 contrary	det
3	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 contrary	parataxis
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 scaled	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 scaled	aux
9	scaled	scale	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 thought	ccomp
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 side	nmod:poss
11	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 scaled	obj
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 noiseless	advmod
13	noiseless	noiseless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 scaled	xcomp
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 mouse	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 mouse	det
16	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 noiseless	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 amazed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 amazed	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 amazed	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 amazed	cop
21	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 contrary	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 see	mark
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 amazed	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pirates	det
25	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 see	obj
26	cowering	cower	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 pirates	acl
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 cowering	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Hook	punct
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 Hook	case
31	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cowering	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 midst	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 midst	nmod:poss
34	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Hook	nmod
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 abject	advmod
36	abject	abject	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 midst	amod
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 heard	mark
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	41 heard	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 heard	nsubj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 heard	aux
41	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 abject	advcl
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 crocodile	det
43	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 heard	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 contrary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	human			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	scale	past · perfect	human	idea's side	noiseless property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Source
3	is	past	human		amazed property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	human not said here	the pirates		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pirate=Stimulus
5	cower	gerund	the pirates not said here		from human; with Hook in Hook's midst	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from he=Stimulus
6	hear	past · perfect	human	the crocodile		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crocodile=Stimulus

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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