Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 114
With a hasty gesture he tried to hide it, but he was too late.
Who acts: beauty · What happens: try, hide, be · To what, where: gesture
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), 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 | _ | 4 gesture | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 gesture | det |
| 3 | hasty | hasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gesture | amod |
| 4 | gesture | gesture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tried | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tried | nsubj |
| 6 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hide | mark |
| 8 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tried | xcomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hide | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 late | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 late | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 late | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 late | cop |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 late | advmod |
| 15 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tried | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | beauty | with a hasty gesture | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hide not said to happen | to-infinitive | beauty not said here | gesture | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | beauty | late property | tree rules |
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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