Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 53

Then was heard a crowing sound which was well understood by the boys, but to the pirates was almost more eerie than the screech.

Who acts: boys · What happens: hear, crow, understand, be · To what, where: crowing sound

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 (boys), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 heard	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	aux:pass
3	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sound	det
5	crowing	crow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 sound	amod
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 understood	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 understood	aux:pass
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 understood	advmod
10	understood	understand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sound	acl:relcl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 boys	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boys	det
13	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 understood	obl:agent
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 eerie	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 eerie	cc
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 pirates	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pirates	det
18	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 eerie	obl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 eerie	cop
20	almost	almost	ADV	_	21 more	advmod
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 eerie	advmod
22	eerie	eerie	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heard	conj
23	than	than	ADP	_	25 screech	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 screech	det
25	screech	screech	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eerie	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · passive		a crowing sound	then		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: sound=Stimulus
2	crow	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	understand	past · passive	the boys	a crowing sound		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
4	is	past				to the pirates; than the screech; eerie property	tree rules

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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