Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 32

Of course she should have roused the children at once; not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them, but because it was no longer good for them to sleep on a rock grown chilly.

Who acts: that, course, captains · What happens: rouse, stalk, be, sleep, grow · To what, where: Wendy, rock

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 (that, course, captains), 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	Of	of	SCONJ	_	6 roused	mark
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 roused	nsubj:pass
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 roused	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 roused	aux
6	roused	rouse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 good	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 children	det
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 roused	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 roused	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 unknown	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 unknown	advmod
13	merely	merely	ADV	_	17 unknown	advmod
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 unknown	mark
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 because	fixed
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 unknown	det
17	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 roused	conj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 stalking	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stalking	aux
20	stalking	stalk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 unknown	advcl
21	toward	toward	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stalking	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 good	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 good	cc
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 good	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 good	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 good	cop
28	no	no	ADV	_	29 longer	advmod
29	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 good	advmod
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 sleep	mark
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sleep	nsubj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 sleep	mark
34	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 good	advcl
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 rock	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 rock	det
37	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sleep	obl
38	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 rock	acl
39	chilly	chilly	ADV	_	38 grown	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rouse	should · perfect · passive		Wendy			tree rules
2	stalk	past · progressive	that			toward captains = captain	vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	course			good, long property	tree rules
4	sleep	to-infinitive	captains = captain		a rock		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	grow	participle		a rock not said here		chilly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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