Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 5

He had seen the crocodile pass by without noticing anything peculiar about it, but by and by he remembered that it had not been ticking.

Who acts: experience, crocodile, peculiar · What happens: see, pass by, notice, remember, not tick · To what, where: crocodile, anything peculiar

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 (experience, crocodile, peculiar), 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	3 seen	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seen	aux
3	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crocodile	det
5	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seen	obj
6	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seen	xcomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	6 pass	obl
8	without	without	SCONJ	_	9 noticing	mark
9	noticing	notice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 pass	advcl
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 peculiar	compound
11	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 noticing	obj
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 noticing	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 remembered	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 remembered	cc
16	by	by	SCONJ	_	20 remembered	mark
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 by	cc
18	by	by	ADP	_	16 by	conj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 remembered	nsubj
20	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seen	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 ticking	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 ticking	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 ticking	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 ticking	advmod
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 ticking	aux
26	ticking	tick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 remembered	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect	experience	the crocodile		tree rules
2	pass by	infinitive	the crocodile not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	notice	gerund	the crocodile not said here	anything peculiar	about peculiar	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer peculiar=Stimulus
4	remember	past	experience			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	not tick	past · perfect · progressive	peculiar			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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