Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 233

Quick as thought he snatched a knife from Hook’s belt and was about to drive it home, when he saw that he was higher up the rock than his foe.

Who acts: Quick thought, thought · What happens: snatch, be, drive, see · To what, where: knife, belt

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 (Quick thought, thought), 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	Quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thought	amod
2	as	as	ADP	_	3 thought	case
3	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snatched	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 snatched	nsubj
5	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 knife	det
7	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snatched	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 belt	case
9	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 belt	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 Hook	case
11	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knife	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 about	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 about	cop
14	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snatched	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 drive	mark
16	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 about	xcomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 drive	obj
18	home	home	ADV	_	16 drive	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 saw	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 snatched	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 higher	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 higher	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 higher	cop
26	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 saw	xcomp
27	up	up	ADP	_	29 rock	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rock	det
29	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 higher	obl
30	than	than	ADP	_	32 foe	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 foe	nmod:poss
32	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 higher	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 snatched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	snatch	past	Quick thought	a knife	Hook's belt		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent knife=Theme from belt=Source
2	is	past	Quick thought not said here			about property	tree rules
3	drive	to-infinitive	Quick thought not said here	knife		home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory
4	see	past	thought				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	thought			up the rock; than thought's foe; high property	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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