Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 147
In that supreme moment Hook did not blanch, even at the gills, but Smee and Starkey clung to each other in terror.
Who acts: Smee · What happens: not blanch, cling · To what, where: supreme moment Hook, terror
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 (Smee), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 Hook | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 Hook | nsubj |
| 3 | supreme | supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Hook | amod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Hook | compound |
| 5 | Hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blanch | obl |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 blanch | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 blanch | advmod |
| 8 | blanch | blanch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gills | punct |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 gills | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 gills | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gills | det |
| 13 | gills | gill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 blanch | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 clung | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 clung | cc |
| 16 | Smee | Smee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 clung | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Starkey | cc |
| 18 | Starkey | Starkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Smee | conj |
| 19 | clung | cling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 blanch | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 each | case |
| 21 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 19 clung | obl |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 each | fixed |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 terror | case |
| 24 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 clung | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 blanch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not blanch | past · do-support | supreme moment Hook | at the gills | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at gill=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cling | past | Smee and Starkey | terror | to each | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to each=Co-Theme |
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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