Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 152

He stood for a long time lost in thought, and at last a curdling smile lit up his swarthy face.

Who acts: Hook, last · What happens: stand, lose, lit up · To what, where: long time, thought, swarthy face

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hook, last), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 time	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
7	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 time	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 thought	case
9	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lit	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lit	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 last	case
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lit	nsubj:outer
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 smile	det
15	curdling	curdling	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 smile	compound
16	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 last	nsubj
17	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stood	advcl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 lit	compound:prt
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 face	nmod:poss
20	swarthy	swarthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 face	amod
21	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lit	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stand	past	Hook			time	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lose	participle		a long time not said here	thought		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in thought=Eventuality
3	lit up	participle	last	Hook's swarthy face			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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