Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 189

He knocked politely, and now the wood was as still as the children, not a sound to be heard except from Tinker Bell, who was watching from a branch and openly sneering.

Who acts: Peter, wood, sound · What happens: knock, be, hear, watch, sneer · To what, where: branch

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 (Peter, wood, sound), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	politely	politely	ADV	_	2 knocked	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sound	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sound	cc
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 still	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 still	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 still	cop
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 still	advmod
11	still	still	ADV	_	18 sound	advmod
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 children	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 children	det
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 still	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sound	punct
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 sound	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sound	det
18	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knocked	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	21 heard	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 heard	aux:pass
21	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 sound	acl
22	except	except	ADP	_	25 Bell	case
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 Bell	case
24	Tinker	Tinker	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Bell	compound
25	Bell	Bell	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 heard	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 watching	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 watching	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 watching	aux
29	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 sound	parataxis
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 branch	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 branch	det
32	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 watching	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 sneering	cc
34	openly	openly	ADV	_	35 sneering	advmod
35	sneering	sneer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 watching	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	past	Peter			politely property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	the wood		now	as the children; still property	tree rules
3	hear	to-infinitive · passive	Peter not said here			except Tinker Bell	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»
4	watch	past · progressive	a sound	a branch			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5	sneer	gerund	a sound not said here			openly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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