Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 98

Sometimes he poised himself in the air, listening intently, with his hand to his ear, and again he would stare down with eyes so bright that they seemed to bore two holes to earth.

Who acts: Bell, eyes · What happens: poise, listen, stare down, seem, bore · To what, where: Bell, air, two holes

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 (Bell, 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 poised	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 poised	nsubj
3	poised	poise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 poised	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poised	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 listening	punct
9	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 poised	advcl
10	intently	intently	ADV	_	9 listening	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hand	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 hand	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hand	nmod:poss
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 listening	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 ear	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 ear	nmod:poss
17	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hand	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stare	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stare	cc
20	again	again	ADV	_	23 stare	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stare	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 stare	aux
23	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 poised	conj
24	down	down	ADV	_	23 stare	advmod
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 eyes	case
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stare	obl
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 bright	advmod
28	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 stare	advcl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 seemed	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 seemed	nsubj
31	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 bright	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 bore	mark
33	bore	bore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 seemed	xcomp
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 holes	nummod
35	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 bore	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 earth	case
37	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bore	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 poised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poise	past	Bell	Bell	the air		sometimes property	tree rules
2	listen	gerund	Bell not said here				with Bell's hand to Bell's ear; intently property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	stare down	would	Bell			again	with eyes; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	seem	past	eyes = eye					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	bore	to-infinitive	eyes = eye not said here	two holes			to earth	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hole=Experiencer

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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