Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 67

There was no more singing, all listened now; and again came a death-screech and again a crow.

Who acts: more singing · What happens: be, listen, come · To what, where: all, death screech

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 (more singing), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	ADV	_	5 singing	advmod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 singing	amod
5	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 listened	punct
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 listened	nsubj:pass
8	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 singing	acl
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 listened	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
12	again	again	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 screech	det
15	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 screech	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 death	punct
17	screech	screech	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 crow	cc
19	again	again	ADV	_	21 crow	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 crow	det
21	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 screech	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	past	more singing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	listen	participle · passive	more singing not said here	all		now	tree rules
3	come	past		a death screech and a crow		again	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location screech=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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