Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 184

The next moment is the long one, but victory came quickly, for as the boys advanced upon them in the terrible attitude, the wolves dropped their tails and fled.

Who acts: next moment, victory, boys, wolves · What happens: be, come, advance, drop, flee · To what, where: long one, terrible attitude, tails

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 (next moment, victory, boys, wolves), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moment	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moment	amod
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
10	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	parataxis
12	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 advanced	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 advanced	mark
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 advanced	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 boys	det
17	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 advanced	nsubj
18	advanced	advance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 advanced	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 attitude	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 attitude	det
23	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 attitude	amod
24	attitude	attitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 advanced	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dropped	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wolves	det
27	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 dropped	nsubj
28	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 advanced	parataxis
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 tails	nmod:poss
30	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 dropped	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fled	cc
32	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 dropped	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the next moment	the long one			tree rules
2	come	past	victory			quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	advance	past	the boys		the terrible attitude	upon wolves = wolf	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	drop	past	the wolves	wolves's tails			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
5	flee	past	the wolves not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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