Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 192
As for Peter, he seized his sword, the same he thought he had slain Barbecue with, and the lust of battle was in his eye.
Who acts: Bell, same, lust, battle · What happens: seize, think, slay, be, lust · To what, where: sword, Barbecue, eye · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bell, same, lust, battle), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 Peter | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Peter | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 seized | nsubj |
| 6 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sword | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 same | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sword | acl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 slain | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 slain | aux |
| 16 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | Barbecue | barbecue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slain | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 slain | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 eye | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 eye | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lust | det |
| 22 | lust | lust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 eye | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 battle | case |
| 24 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lust | nmod |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 eye | cop |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 eye | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 eye | nmod:poss |
| 28 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | Bell | Bell's sword | as Peter | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the same | Bell's sword not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent sword=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | slay | past · perfect | Bell | Barbecue | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barbecue=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the lust of battle | Bell's eye | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | lust | battle | nom lust «feeling 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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