Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 6

They had crowded round Wendy, and as they looked a terrible silence fell upon the wood.

Who acts: others, terrible silence · What happens: crowd, look, fall · To what, where: wood

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 (others, terrible silence), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crowded	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crowded	aux
3	crowded	crowd	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	round	round	ADP	_	5 Wendy	case
5	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 crowded	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 looked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 looked	cc
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 looked	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 looked	nsubj
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crowded	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 silence	det
12	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 silence	amod
13	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fell	nsubj
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 looked	conj
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 wood	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wood	det
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fell	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crowded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	crowd	past · perfect	others = other		round Wendy	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round wendy=Destination
2	look	past	others = other			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	fall	past	a terrible silence	the wood		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon wood=Location

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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