Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 185

As he stood on the bulwark looking over his shoulder at Peter gliding through the air, he invited him with a gesture to use his foot.

Who acts: knowledge · What happens: stand, look, glide, invite, use · To what, where: bulwark, air, Peter, foot

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 (knowledge), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 stood	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 invited	advcl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 bulwark	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bulwark	det
6	bulwark	bulwark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
7	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stood	advcl
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 shoulder	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shoulder	nmod:poss
10	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looking	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 Peter	case
12	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 looking	obl
13	gliding	glide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 looking	advcl
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 air	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 air	det
16	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gliding	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 invited	nsubj
19	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 invited	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 gesture	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 gesture	det
23	gesture	gesture	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 invited	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 use	mark
25	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 invited	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 foot	nmod:poss
27	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 use	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 invited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	knowledge			the bulwark		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bulwark=Location
2	look	gerund	knowledge not said here				at Peter; over knowledge's shoulder	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over shoulder=Theme
3	glide	gerund	knowledge not said here			the air		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Trajectory
4	invite	past	knowledge		Peter		with a gesture	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	use	to-infinitive	knowledge not said here	knowledge's foot				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=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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