Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 49

They followed him with their eyes; they scarce knew that Hook had resumed his song, his dogs joining in with him:

Who acts: children, Hook, dogs, Peter · What happens: follow, be, resume, join in, sing · To what, where: Peter, song · 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 (children, Hook, dogs, Peter), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 followed	nsubj
2	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 followed	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 eyes	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eyes	nmod:poss
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 followed	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 knew	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knew	nsubj
9	scarce	scarce	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 knew	cop
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 followed	parataxis
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 resumed	mark
12	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 resumed	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 resumed	aux
14	resumed	resume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 knew	ccomp
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 song	nmod:poss
16	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 resumed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dogs	punct
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 dogs	nmod:poss
19	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 resumed	conj
20	joining	join	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 dogs	acl
21	in	in	ADP	_	20 joining	compound:prt
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 joining	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	past	children = child	Peter	with children's eyes	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	is	present	children = child		know property	tree rules
3	resume	past · perfect	Hook	Peter's song		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality
4	join in	gerund	Peter's dogs not said here		with Peter	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with he=Co-Patient
5	sing		Peter			nom song «communication intransitive»: 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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