Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 100
“Then I refuse,” he cried, banging the barrel in front of Hook.
Who acts: John · What happens: refuse, cry, bang · To what, where: barrel, front · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 refuse | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 refuse | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 refuse | nsubj |
| 4 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 refuse | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 refuse | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 refuse | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 banging | punct |
| 10 | banging | bang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 cried | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 barrel | det |
| 12 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 banging | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 front | case |
| 14 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 banging | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Hook | case |
| 16 | Hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 front | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 refuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse in a quote | present | John | then | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | John | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bang | gerund | John not said here | the barrel | front of Hook | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent barrel=Theme in front=Trajectory |
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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