Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 191

When at last the heavens were steady again, John and Michael found themselves alone in the darkness.

Who acts: heavens, John · What happens: be, find · To what, where: last, John, darkness

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 (heavens, John), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	7 steady	mark
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 steady	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 heavens	det
5	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 steady	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 steady	cop
7	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 found	advcl
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 steady	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 steady	punct
10	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 found	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Michael	cc
12	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 John	conj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 found	obj
15	alone	alone	ADV	_	13 found	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 darkness	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 darkness	det
18	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the heavens			last	again	steady property	tree rules
2	find	past	John and Michael	John		the darkness		alone property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic

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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