Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 51
This had got on Hook’s nerves; it made his iron claw twitch, and at night it disturbed him like an insect.
Who acts: This, beating, Hook · What happens: get, make, disturb, twitch · To what, where: nerves, claw twitch, Hook
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, beating, Hook), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | aux |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 nerves | case |
| 5 | Hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nerves | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Hook | case |
| 7 | nerves | nerve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 got | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | parataxis |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 twitch | nmod:poss |
| 12 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 claw | compound |
| 13 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 twitch | compound |
| 14 | twitch | twitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 disturbed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 disturbed | cc |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 night | case |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 disturbed | obl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 disturbed | nsubj |
| 20 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 disturbed | obj |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 insect | case |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 insect | det |
| 24 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 disturbed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | This | Hook's nerves | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on nerve=Source | ||||
| 2 | make | past | beating | Hook's claw twitch | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material twitch=Product | ||||
| 3 | disturb | past | beating | Hook | night | like a insect | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||
| 4 | twitch | Hook | nom twitch «state transitive»: poss=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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