Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 187

As if in answer to his request, the air was rent by the most tremendous crash he had ever heard.

Who acts: tremendous crash, sound · What happens: rend, hear, request · To what, where: air, answer, tremendous crash

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tremendous crash, sound), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	12 rent	mark
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 rent	mark
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 answer	case
4	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rent	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 request	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 request	nmod:poss
7	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answer	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 answer	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 air	det
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rent	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 rent	aux:pass
12	rent	rend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	by	by	ADP	_	17 crash	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 crash	det
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 tremendous	advmod
16	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 crash	amod
17	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rent	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heard	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 heard	aux
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 heard	advmod
21	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 crash	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 rent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	rend	past · passive	the tremendous crash	the air	answer to sound's request		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	hear	past · perfect	sound	the tremendous crash not said here		ever	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crash=Stimulus
3	request		sound				nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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