Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 34
Hook let his cloak slip softly to the ground, and then biting his lips till a lewd blood stood on them, he stepped into the tree.
Who acts: Hook, cloak, biting · What happens: let, slip, bite, stand, step · To what, where: lips, tree
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hook, cloak, biting), 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 | Hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 let | nsubj |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 4 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slip | nsubj |
| 5 | slip | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 let | xcomp |
| 6 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 5 slip | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 ground | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slip | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stood | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stood | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 biting | advmod |
| 13 | biting | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 stood | csubj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 lips | nmod:poss |
| 15 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 biting | obj |
| 16 | till | till | ADP | _ | 19 blood | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 blood | det |
| 18 | lewd | lewd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 blood | amod |
| 19 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 biting | obl |
| 20 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 let | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stood | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stepped | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 stepped | nsubj |
| 25 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stood | conj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 tree | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tree | det |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stepped | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | Hook | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | slip | present | Hook's cloak | to the ground; softly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | bite | gerund | Hook's lips | till a lewd blood; then | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | biting | on feet = foot | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on they=Location | ||||
| 5 | step | past | Hook | the tree | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination |
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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