Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 139

His face had gone black with rage, but he saw that they believed their words, and he was startled.

Who acts: face, Hook, Brimstone · What happens: go, see, believe, startle, word · To what, where: words, Hook

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, Hook, Brimstone), 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 face	nmod:poss
2	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gone	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 rage	case
7	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 black	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 saw	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 believed	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 believed	nsubj
14	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	advcl
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 words	nmod:poss
16	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 believed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 startled	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 startled	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 startled	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 startled	aux:pass
21	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 gone	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	Hook's face		black property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	Hook			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	believe	past	Brimstone	Brimstone's words		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
4	startle	past · passive		Hook		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	word		Brimstone			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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