Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 1

By three bells that morning they were all stirring their stumps; for there was a big sea running; and Tootles, the bo’sun, was among them, with a rope’s end in his hand and chewing tobacco.

Who acts: bells, big sea · What happens: stir, be, run, chew · To what, where: stumps, big sea, tobacco

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bells, big sea), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 bells	case
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 bells	nummod
3	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 morning	det
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stirring	obl:unmarked
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stirring	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stirring	aux
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 stirring	advmod
9	stirring	stir	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 bells	acl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 stumps	nmod:poss
11	stumps	stump	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stirring	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 sea	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 was	mark
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sea	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sea	det
17	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sea	amod
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bells	conj
19	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 sea	acl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 Tootles	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Tootles	cc
22	Tootles	tootle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bells	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bo’sun	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bo’sun	det
25	bo’sun	bo'sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Tootles	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 them	punct
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 them	cop
28	among	among	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 Tootles	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 end	punct
31	with	with	ADP	_	35 end	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 rope	det
33	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 end	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 rope	case
35	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Tootles	conj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 hand	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 hand	nmod:poss
38	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 end	nmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 chewing	cc
40	chewing	chew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 hand	conj
41	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 chewing	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stir	past · progressive	bells = bell	bells's stumps	morning	all property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus stump=Experiencer
2	is a	past		a big sea			tree rules
3	run	gerund	a big sea not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past				among bells = bell	tree rules
5	chew	gerund		tobacco			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tobacco=Patient

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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