Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 6
With ironical politeness Hook raised his hat to her, and, offering her his arm, escorted her to the spot where the others were being gagged.
Who acts: Hook · What happens: raise, offer, escort, gag · To what, where: hat, Wendy, arm, spot, others
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), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 politeness | case |
| 2 | ironical | ironical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 politeness | amod |
| 3 | politeness | politeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raised | obl |
| 4 | Hook | Hook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 raised | nsubj |
| 5 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hat | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raised | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 raised | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 offering | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 offering | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 offering | punct |
| 13 | offering | offer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 raised | advcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 offering | obj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 arm | nmod:poss |
| 16 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 offering | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 escorted | punct |
| 18 | escorted | escort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 raised | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 escorted | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 spot | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 spot | det |
| 22 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 escorted | obl |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 gagged | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 others | det |
| 25 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 gagged | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 gagged | aux:pass |
| 27 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 gagged | aux:pass |
| 28 | gagged | gag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 spot | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | Hook | Hook's hat | Wendy | with ironical politeness | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hat=Theme to she=Destination | ||
| 2 | offer | gerund | Hook not said here | Hook's arm | Wendy | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal arm=Theme | |||
| 3 | escort | past | Hook not said here | Wendy | the spot | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to spot=Destination | |||
| 4 | gag | past · passive | the others | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=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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