Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 152

In a horrid silence Mrs. Darling smelt the bowl.

Who acts: Mrs. · What happens: smelt · To what, where: bowl, horrid silence

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mrs.), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 silence	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 silence	det
3	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 silence	amod
4	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smelt	obl
5	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 smelt	nsubj
6	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Mrs.	flat
7	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bowl	det
9	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smelt	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 smelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smelt	past	Mrs.	the bowl		a horrid silence			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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