Crocodiles and alligators, sentence 3

In Peter Pan the crocodile swallows a ticking clock and chases Captain Hook for more; real crocodiles can't chew at all, so they spin over and over in the death roll to twist off chunks and swallow them whole.

Who acts: crocodile, real crocodiles, Crocodiles · What happens: swallow, chase, not chew, spin, twist off · To what, where: ticking clock, Peter, Captain Hook, death roll, chunks, Crocodiles

This is a sentence of the lesson «Crocodiles and alligators» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crocodile, real crocodiles, Crocodiles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Peter	case
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 swallows	obl
3	Pan	Pan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Peter	flat
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crocodile	det
5	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swallows	nsubj
6	swallows	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 clock	det
8	ticking	ticking	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 clock	compound
9	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swallows	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 chases	cc
11	chases	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 swallows	conj
12	Captain	Captain	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Hook	compound
13	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chases	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 more	case
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 chases	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 chew	punct
17	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 crocodiles	amod
18	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 chew	nsubj
19	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 chew	aux
20	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 chew	advmod
21	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 swallows	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 all	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 chew	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 spin	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 spin	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 spin	nsubj
27	spin	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 swallows	conj
28	over	over	ADV	_	27 spin	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 over	cc
30	over	over	ADV	_	28 over	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 roll	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 roll	det
33	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 roll	compound
34	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 spin	obl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 twist	mark
36	twist	twist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 spin	advcl
37	off	off	ADP	_	36 twist	compound:prt
38	chunks	chunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 twist	obj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 swallow	cc
40	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 twist	conj
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 swallow	obj
42	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 swallow	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 swallows	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swallow	present	the crocodile	a ticking clock	Peter		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Patient
2	chase	present	the crocodile not said here	Captain Hook		for more	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Theme
3	not chew	can	real crocodiles			at all	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at all=Patient
4	spin	present	Crocodiles = crocodile		the death roll	over property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in roll=Trajectory
5	twist off	to-infinitive	Crocodiles = crocodile not said here	chunks			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent chunk=Theme
6	swallow	infinitive	Crocodiles = crocodile not said here	Crocodiles = crocodile		whole property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:029-crocodiles-and-alligators.lesson:3.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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