Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 228

Each feeling for a grip met the other’s arm: in surprise they raised their heads; their faces were almost touching; so they met.

Who acts: feeling, others, faces · What happens: meet, raise, touch · To what, where: arm, heads, surprise

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 (feeling, others, faces), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 feeling	det
2	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 met	nsubj
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 grip	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 grip	det
5	grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feeling	nmod
6	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 other	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 arm	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 other	case
10	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 met	obj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 raised	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 surprise	case
13	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 raised	obl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 raised	nsubj
15	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 met	conj
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 heads	nmod:poss
17	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 raised	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 touching	punct
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 faces	nmod:poss
20	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 touching	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 touching	aux
22	almost	almost	ADV	_	23 touching	advmod
23	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 raised	advcl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 met	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 met	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 met	nsubj
27	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 met	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past	each feeling for a grip	the other's arm			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Co-Agent
2	raise	past	others = other	others's heads	surprise		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in surprise=Destination
3	touch	past · progressive	others's faces			almost property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	meet	past	others = other				vn meet-36.3-1 «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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