Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 91

Nothing horrid was visible in the air, yet their progress had become slow and laboured, exactly as if they were pushing their way through hostile forces.

Who acts: Nothing, progress, eyes · What happens: be, become, labour, push, progress · To what, where: air, way, hostile forces

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 (Nothing, progress, eyes), 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	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 visible	nsubj
2	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 visible	cop
4	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 visible	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 become	punct
9	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	13 become	cc
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 progress	nmod:poss
11	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 become	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 become	aux
13	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 visible	parataxis
14	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 become	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 laboured	cc
16	laboured	labour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 slow	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pushing	punct
18	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	23 pushing	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 pushing	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 pushing	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 pushing	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 pushing	aux
23	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 visible	parataxis
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 way	nmod:poss
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pushing	obj
26	through	through	ADP	_	28 forces	case
27	hostile	hostile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 forces	amod
28	forces	force	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pushing	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 visible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Nothing		the air	visible property	tree rules
2	become	past · perfect	eyes's progress			slow property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	labour	participle	eyes's progress not said here				vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	push a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	eyes = eye	eyes's way	hostile forces	exactly property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent way=Theme through force=Trajectory
5	progress		eyes = eye				nom progress «act intransitive»: 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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