Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 1

Foolish Tootles was standing like a conqueror over Wendy’s body when the other boys sprang, armed, from their trees.

Who acts: Foolish Tootles, other boys · What happens: stand, spring · To what, where: trees

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Foolish Tootles, other boys), 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	Foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Tootles	amod
2	Tootles	tootle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 standing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 standing	aux
4	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 conqueror	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 conqueror	det
7	conqueror	conqueror	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 standing	obl
8	over	over	ADP	_	11 body	case
9	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 body	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 Wendy	case
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conqueror	nmod
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 sprang	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boys	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 boys	amod
15	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sprang	nsubj
16	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 standing	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 armed	punct
18	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sprang	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 trees	punct
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 trees	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 trees	nmod:poss
22	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sprang	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	Foolish Tootles					like a conqueror over Wendy's body	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spring	past	the other boys			boys's trees			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=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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