Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 51

What was the last line will never be known, for of a sudden the song was stayed by a dreadful screech from the cabin.

Who acts: dreadful screech · What happens: not know, stay · To what, where: song

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 (dreadful screech), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 known	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 known	aux:pass
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 line	det
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 line	amod
5	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 known	nsubj:pass
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 known	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 known	advmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 known	aux:pass
9	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sudden	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 sudden	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 for	fixed
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sudden	det
14	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 known	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 song	det
16	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stayed	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stayed	aux:pass
18	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 sudden	acl:relcl
19	by	by	ADP	_	22 screech	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 screech	det
21	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 screech	amod
22	screech	screech	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stayed	obl
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 cabin	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cabin	det
25	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 screech	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past · passive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	stay	past · passive	a dreadful screech from the cabin	the song					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme subject=Location

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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