Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 170

Hook stood shuddering, one foot in the air.

Who acts: Hook · What happens: stand, shudder · To what, where: one foot, air

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), 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	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	shuddering	shudder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stood	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 foot	punct
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 foot	nummod
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shuddering	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 air	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 foot	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Hook						vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	shudder	gerund	Hook not said here	one foot		the air			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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