Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 36

In the midst of them, the blackest and largest in that dark setting, reclined James Hook, or as he wrote himself, Jas.

Who acts: Hook · What happens: recline, write · To what, where: James Hook, midst, Hook

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	In	in	ADP	_	3 midst	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 midst	det
3	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reclined	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 midst	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 largest	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 largest	det
8	blackest	black	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 largest	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 largest	cc
10	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 midst	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 setting	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 setting	det
13	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 setting	amod
14	setting	setting	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 largest	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 midst	punct
16	reclined	recline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Hook	compound
18	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 reclined	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wrote	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 wrote	cc
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 wrote	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wrote	nsubj
23	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 reclined	conj
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 wrote	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Jas	punct
26	Jas	Jas	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 wrote	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 reclined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recline	past		James Hook		the midst of Mullins the largest			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hook=Theme in midst=Destination
2	write	past	Hook	Hook				Jas obl	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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