Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 39

Peter sprang erect, as wide awake at once as a dog, and with one warning cry he roused the others.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: spring, rouse · To what, where: others

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 (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	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sprang	nsubj
2	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	erect	erect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sprang	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 awake	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 awake	mark
6	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 awake	amod
7	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sprang	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 awake	obl
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 dog	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dog	det
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 once	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 roused	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 roused	cc
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 cry	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 warning	nummod
17	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cry	compound
18	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 roused	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 roused	nsubj
20	roused	rouse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sprang	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 others	det
22	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 roused	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring	past	Peter					erect property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rouse	past	Peter	the others				with warning cry	vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Patient

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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