Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 248

A few moments afterwards the other boys saw Hook in the water striking wildly for the ship; no elation on the pestilent face now, only white fear, for the crocodile was in dogged pursuit of him.

Who acts: few moments, water, crocodile · What happens: see, strike, be · To what, where: Hook, water, dogged pursuit

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 (few moments, water, crocodile), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moments	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moments	amod
3	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 saw	nsubj
4	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	8 saw	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boys	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boys	amod
7	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 water	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obl
13	striking	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 water	acl
14	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	13 striking	advmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 ship	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ship	det
17	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 striking	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 elation	punct
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 elation	det
20	elation	elation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	parataxis
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 face	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 face	det
23	pestilent	pestilent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 face	amod
24	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 elation	nmod
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 face	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fear	punct
27	only	only	ADV	_	29 fear	advmod
28	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fear	amod
29	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 elation	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 pursuit	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 pursuit	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 crocodile	det
33	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 pursuit	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 pursuit	cop
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 pursuit	case
36	dogged	dogged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 pursuit	amod
37	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 elation	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 pursuit	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	a few moments	Hook	the water	afterwards property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hook=Stimulus
2	strike	gerund	the water not said here			for the ship; wildly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the crocodile		dogged pursuit	of Peter	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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