Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 69
All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind.
Who acts: All, none, danger · What happens: keep, suspect, creep up · To what, where: sharp look out, front
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 (All, none, danger), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 keeping | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 keeping | aux |
| 3 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 out | det |
| 5 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 out | amod |
| 6 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 out | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
| 8 | out | out | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keeping | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 front | case |
| 10 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 out | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 suspects | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 suspects | cc |
| 13 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 14 suspects | nsubj |
| 14 | suspects | suspect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 keeping | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 creeping | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 danger | det |
| 17 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 creeping | nsubj |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 creeping | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 creeping | aux |
| 20 | creeping | creep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 suspects | advcl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 creeping | compound:prt |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 behind | case |
| 23 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 20 creeping | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keeping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present · progressive | All | a sharp look out | front | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent out=Theme in front=Location | |||
| 2 | suspect | present | none | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | creep up | may · progressive | the danger | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from behind=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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