Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 296

A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one.

Who acts: tremour, shudder, hundreds, Peter · What happens: run, pass, follow, be, feel · To what, where: sea, another, sea shudder, one

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 (tremour, shudder, hundreds, Peter), 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	2 tremour	det
2	tremour	tremour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shudder	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 shudder	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 shudder	det
9	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
10	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 shudder	acl
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passing	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 follows	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 follows	cc
16	on	on	ADP	_	20 shudder	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shudder	det
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shudder	compound
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 sea	flat
20	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 follows	obl
21	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	parataxis
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 follows	obj
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	25 are	mark
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 are	expl
25	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 follows	advcl
26	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 are	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hundreds	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 felt	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 felt	cc
31	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 felt	nsubj
32	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
33	just	just	ADV	_	35 one	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 one	det
35	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 felt	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	a tremour			through Peter; like a shudder	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through he=Trajectory
2	pass	gerund	a shudder not said here		the sea		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over sea=Location
3	follow	present		another	the sea shudder		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent another=Theme on shudder=Trajectory
4	does	present	hundreds of boys		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	feel	past	Peter	the one			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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