Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 85

Peter may have been about to crow, but his face puckered in a whistle of surprise instead.

Who acts: Peter, face, surprise · What happens: be, pucker, whistle · To what, where: whistle

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, face, surprise), 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	7 crow	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 crow	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 crow	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 crow	cop
5	about	about	ADV	_	7 crow	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 crow	mark
7	crow	crow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 puckered	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 puckered	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 face	nmod:poss
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 puckered	nsubj
12	puckered	pucker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 crow	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 whistle	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 whistle	det
15	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 puckered	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 surprise	case
17	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 whistle	nmod
18	instead	instead	ADV	_	12 puckered	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 crow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	may · perfect	Peter		about, crow property	tree rules
2	pucker	participle	Peter's face	a whistle of surprise	instead property	vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	whistle		surprise			nom whistle «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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