Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 90

In the light of the lantern Wendy saw his hook grip the boat’s side; she saw his evil swarthy face as he rose dripping from the water, and, quaking, she would have liked to swim away, but Peter would not budge.

Who acts: Wendy, hook, Peter · What happens: see, grip, rise, drip, quake, like · To what, where: light, side, evil swarthy face, water, lantern · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Wendy, hook, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 light	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 light	det
3	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 lantern	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lantern	det
6	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 light	nmod
7	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hook	nmod:poss
10	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grip	nsubj
11	grip	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boat	det
13	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 side	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 boat	case
15	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grip	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 face	nmod:poss
20	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 face	amod
21	swarthy	swarthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 face	amod
22	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obj
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 rose	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 rose	nsubj
25	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saw	advcl
26	dripping	drip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 rose	xcomp
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 water	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dripping	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 quaking	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 quaking	cc
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 quaking	punct
33	quaking	quake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 saw	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 liked	punct
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 liked	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 liked	aux
37	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 liked	aux
38	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 quaking	advcl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 swim	mark
40	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 liked	xcomp
41	away	away	ADV	_	40 swim	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 budge	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 budge	cc
44	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 budge	nsubj
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 budge	aux
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 budge	advmod
47	budge	budge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 saw	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Wendy		the light of the lantern		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	grip	present	Hook's hook	the boat's side			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Experiencer
3	see	past	Wendy	Hook's evil swarthy face			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus
4	rise	past	Hook				tree rules
5	drip	gerund	Hook not said here		the water		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from water=Source
6	quake	gerund	Wendy not said here				vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	like	would · perfect	Wendy				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	swim away not said to happen	to-infinitive	Wendy not said here			away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	not budge	would	Peter				tree rules
10	light			the lantern			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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