Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 175

Once more the boys emerged into the open; but the dangers of the night were not yet over, for presently Nibs rushed breathless into their midst, pursued by a pack of wolves.

Who acts: boys, dangers, Nibs · What happens: emerge, not be, rush, pursue · To what, where: open, midst

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 (boys, dangers, Nibs), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 more	advmod
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 emerged	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boys	det
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 emerged	nsubj
5	emerged	emerge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 open	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 open	det
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 emerged	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 over	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 over	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dangers	det
12	dangers	danger	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 over	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 night	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dangers	nmod
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 over	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 over	advmod
18	yet	yet	ADV	_	19 over	advmod
19	over	over	ADV	_	5 emerged	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rushed	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 rushed	mark
22	presently	presently	ADV	_	24 rushed	advmod
23	Nibs	nib	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 rushed	nsubj
24	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 emerged	conj
25	breathless	breathless	ADV	_	24 rushed	advmod
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 midst	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 midst	nmod:poss
28	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rushed	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 pursued	punct
30	pursued	pursue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 midst	acl
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 pack	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 pack	det
33	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pursued	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 wolves	case
35	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 pack	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 emerged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	emerge	past	the boys		the open			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into open=Initial_Location
2	not is	past	the dangers of the night			yet	over property	tree rules
3	rush	past	Nibs				into Nibs's midst result; breathless, presently property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into midst=Result
4	pursue	participle		Nibs's midst not said here			by a pack of wolves	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by pack=Trajectory

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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