Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 168

He fought now like a human flail, and every sweep of that terrible sword would have severed in twain any man or boy who obstructed it; but Peter fluttered round him as if the very wind it made blew him out of the danger zone.

Who acts: To’t, boy, Peter, wind · What happens: fight, sever, obstruct, flutter, make, blow · To what, where: sweep, twain, To’t, wind, danger zone

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 (To’t, boy, Peter, wind), 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	2 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 fought	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 flail	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 flail	det
6	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flail	amod
7	flail	flail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fought	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 severed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 severed	cc
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 sweep	det
11	sweep	sweep	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 severed	nsubj:pass
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 sword	case
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 sword	det
14	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sword	amod
15	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sweep	nmod
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 severed	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 severed	aux
18	severed	sever	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fought	parataxis
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 twain	case
20	twain	twain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 severed	obl
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 man	det
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 severed	obj
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 boy	cc
24	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 man	conj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 obstructed	nsubj
26	obstructed	obstruct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 boy	acl:relcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 obstructed	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 fluttered	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 fluttered	cc
30	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 fluttered	nsubj
31	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fought	conj
32	round	round	ADV	_	33 him	advmod
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 fluttered	obj
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 blew	mark
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	41 blew	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 wind	det
37	very	very	ADV	_	38 wind	advmod
38	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 blew	nsubj
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 made	nsubj
40	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 wind	acl:relcl
41	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 fluttered	advcl
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 blew	obj
43	out	out	ADP	_	47 zone	case
44	of	of	ADP	_	47 zone	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 zone	det
46	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 zone	compound
47	zone	zone	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 blew	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	To’t = to't			now	like a human flail	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sever	would · perfect · passive		every sweep of that terrible sword	twain			tree rules
3	obstruct	past	boy	sweep				vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Eventuality
4	flutter	past	Peter	To’t = to't				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
5	make	past	wind	the wind not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material wind=Product
6	blow	past	the wind	To’t = to't	the danger zone			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=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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