Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 168

There was at first such a tiny sound that a leaf might have fallen on it and smothered it, but as it came nearer it was more distinct.

Who acts: leaf, verse · What happens: be, fall, smother, come · To what, where: tiny sound, verse

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 (leaf, verse), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	8 sound	case
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 sound	advmod
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 sound	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sound	det
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sound	amod
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 fallen	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 leaf	det
11	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fallen	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 fallen	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 fallen	aux
14	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 sound	acl:relcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fallen	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 smothered	cc
18	smothered	smother	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fallen	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 smothered	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 distinct	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 distinct	cc
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 came	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 distinct	advcl
25	nearer	near	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 came	advmod
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 distinct	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 distinct	cop
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 distinct	advmod
29	distinct	distinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past			such tiny sound; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sound=Location
2	fall	might · perfect	a leaf	such tiny sound	verse		vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient that=Result
3	smother	past	a leaf not said here	verse			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination
4	come	past	verse			near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	verse			distinct property	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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