Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 222

His iron claw made a circle of dead water round him, from which they fled like affrighted fishes.

Who acts: iron claw, others · What happens: make, flee, affright · To what, where: circle

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 (iron claw, others), 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	3 claw	nmod:poss
2	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 claw	compound
3	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 circle	det
6	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 water	amod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 circle	nmod
10	round	round	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fled	punct
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 fled	obl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fled	nsubj
16	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 fishes	case
18	affrighted	affright	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 fishes	amod
19	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fled	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	Peter's iron claw	a circle of dead water	round Peter	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset circle=Product
2	flee	past	others = other		like affrighted fishes	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_Location
3	affright	participle				tree rules

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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