Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 41

His eyes were of the blue of the forget-me-not, and of a profound melancholy, save when he was plunging his hook into you, at which time two red spots appeared in them and lit them up horribly.

Who acts: eyes, man, two red spots · What happens: be, save, plunge, appear, lit up · To what, where: hook, time, eyes

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 (eyes, man, two red spots), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 blue	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 blue	cop
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 blue	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 blue	det
6	blue	blue	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 forget	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forget	det
9	forget	forget	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blue	nmod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 me	punct
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 forget	nmod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 me	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 me	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 save	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 save	cc
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 melancholy	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 melancholy	det
18	profound	profound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 melancholy	amod
19	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 save	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 melancholy	punct
21	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 blue	parataxis
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 plunging	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 plunging	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 plunging	aux
25	plunging	plunge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 save	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hook	nmod:poss
27	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 plunging	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 plunging	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 time	punct
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 time	case
32	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	33 time	det
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 save	obl:unmarked
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 spots	nummod
35	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 spots	amod
36	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 appeared	nsubj
37	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 time	acl:relcl
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 appeared	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 lit	cc
41	lit	lit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 save	conj
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 lit	obj
43	up	up	ADP	_	41 lit	compound:prt
44	horribly	horribly	ADV	_	41 lit	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 blue	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	man's eyes			of the blue; of the forget me	tree rules
2	save	infinitive			time	of a profound melancholy	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	plunge	past · progressive	man	man's hook		into you	vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hook=Theme
4	appear	past	two red spots	which time not said here		in eyes = eye	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme
5	lit up	infinitive		eyes = eye		horribly 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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