Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 178

The other boys were flying around him now, flouting, scornful; and he staggered about the deck striking up at them impotently, his mind was no longer with them; it was slouching in the playing fields of long ago, or being sent up for good, or watching the wall-game from a famous wall.

Who acts: other boys, Peter, deck, mind · What happens: fly, flout, stagger, strike up, not be, slouch · To what, where: playing fields, wall game, famous wall

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 (other boys, Peter, deck, mind), 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	3 boys	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boys	amod
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flying	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flying	aux
5	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	around	around	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 flying	obl
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 flying	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 flouting	punct
10	flouting	flout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 flying	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 scornful	punct
12	scornful	scornful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flouting	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 staggered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 staggered	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 staggered	nsubj
16	staggered	stagger	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flying	conj
17	about	about	ADP	_	19 deck	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 deck	det
19	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 staggered	obl
20	striking	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 deck	acl
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 striking	compound:prt
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 striking	obl
24	impotently	impotently	ADV	_	20 striking	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 longer	punct
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mind	nmod:poss
27	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 longer	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 longer	cop
29	no	no	ADV	_	30 longer	advmod
30	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 staggered	advmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 longer	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 slouching	punct
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 slouching	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 slouching	aux
36	slouching	slouch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 staggered	advcl
37	in	in	ADP	_	40 fields	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 fields	det
39	playing	playing	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fields	compound
40	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 slouching	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 ago	case
42	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 ago	advmod
43	ago	ago	ADV	_	40 fields	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 sent	punct
45	or	or	CCONJ	_	47 sent	cc
46	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 sent	aux:pass
47	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 slouching	parataxis
48	up	up	ADP	_	47 sent	compound:prt
49	for	for	ADP	_	50 good	case
50	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 sent	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 watching	punct
52	or	or	CCONJ	_	53 watching	cc
53	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 sent	advcl
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 game	det
55	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 game	compound
56	-	-	PUNCT	_	55 wall	punct
57	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 watching	obj
58	from	from	ADP	_	61 wall	case
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 wall	det
60	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 wall	amod
61	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 watching	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 flying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past · progressive	the other boys			now	around Peter	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent around he=Location
2	flout	gerund	the other boys not said here					tree rules
3	stagger	past	Peter				about the deck	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about deck=Trajectory
4	strike up	gerund	the deck not said here				at boys = boy; impotently property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	not is	past	Peter's mind				with boys = boy; long property	tree rules
6	slouch	past · progressive	mind		the playing fields			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in field=Location
7	send up	gerund · passive					for good	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»
8	watch	gerund		the wall game	a famous wall			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
9	mind		Peter					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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