Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 135
Hook smiled on them with his teeth closed, and took a step toward Wendy.
Who acts: Hook · What happens: smile, close, take · To what, where: teeth, step
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 (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 | Hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 smiled | nsubj |
| 2 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 smiled | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 teeth | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 7 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 smiled | obl |
| 8 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 teeth | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 smiled | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 step | det |
| 13 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 14 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 15 Wendy | case |
| 15 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | Hook | on boys = boy; with Hook's teeth | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | close | participle | Hook's teeth not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | take | past | Hook not said here | a step | toward Wendy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme |
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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