Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 112
“So, my beauty,” said Hook, as if he spoke in syrup, “you are to see your children walk the plank.”
Who acts: beauty, Hook, you, children · What happens: say, speak, be, walk · To what, where: syrup, plank · 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 (beauty, Hook, you, children), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 So | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beauty | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beauty | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Hook | Hook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spoke | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 spoke | mark |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 spoke | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 spoke | nsubj |
| 14 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 syrup | case |
| 16 | syrup | syrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spoke | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 see | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | cop |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 spoke | conj |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 children | nmod:poss |
| 24 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 walk | nsubj |
| 25 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | ccomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 plank | det |
| 27 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 walk | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | my beauty | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen | past | Hook | syrup | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | see property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | walk in a quote | present | your children | the plank | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plank=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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