Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 150

The others drew back and formed a ring around them.

Who acts: others · What happens: draw back, form · To what, where: ring

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 (others), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 others	det
2	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 drew	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 formed	cc
6	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ring	det
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 formed	obj
9	around	around	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 formed	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw back	past	the others						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	form	past	the others not said here	a ring				around others = other	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ring=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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