--- title: As they pass, Skylights lurches clumsily against him, ruffling his l… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: As they pass, Skylights lurches clumsily against him, ruffling his lace collar; the hook shoots forth, there is a tearing sound and one screech, then the body is kicked aside, and the pirates pass on. Who acts: Skylights, hook, tearing sound, pirates. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapt --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/49/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / [Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/) / 49 # Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 49 As they pass, Skylights lurches clumsily against him, ruffling his lace collar; the hook shoots forth, there is a tearing sound and one screech, then the body is kicked aside, and the pirates pass on. **Who acts:** Skylights, hook, tearing sound, pirates · **What happens:** pass, lurch, ruffle, shoot, be, tear · **To what, where:** lace collar, body This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Skylights, hook, tearing sound, pirates), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg16:6:49 # text = As they pass, Skylights lurches clumsily against him, ruffling his lace collar; the hook shoots forth, there is a tearing sound and one screech, then the body is kicked aside, and the pirates pass on. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pass pass VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 Skylights skylight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 lurches lurch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 clumsily clumsily ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 against against ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 ruffling ruffle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 lace lace NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 collar collar NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 hook hook NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 shoots shoot VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 19 forth forth ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 22 expl _ _ 22 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 tearing tear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 amod _ _ 25 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 screech screech NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 kicked kick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 35 aside aside ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 pirates pirate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 40 pass pass VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 41 on on ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | present | Skylights *= skylight* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **lurch** | present | Skylights | | | | | against Hook; clumsily *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against he=Trajectory | | 3 | **ruffle** | gerund | Skylights *not said here* | Hook's lace collar | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus collar=Experiencer | | 4 | **shoot** | present | the hook | | | | | forth *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **does** | present | a tearing sound and one screech | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **tear** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **kick** | present · passive | | the body | | | then | aside *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient | | 8 | **pass on** | present | the pirates | | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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. - ← previous: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/50/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/)