Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 136
His intention was to turn her face so that she should see the boys walking the plank one by one.
Who acts: intention, Curly, boys, Hook · What happens: be, see, walk, intend · To what, where: boys, plank
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 (intention, Curly, boys, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 intention | nmod:poss |
| 2 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turn | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 turn | mark |
| 5 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 face | nmod:poss |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | obj |
| 8 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 12 see | mark |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 so | fixed |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 turn | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boys | det |
| 14 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 see | obj |
| 15 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 boys | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 plank | det |
| 17 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walking | obj |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 walking | obl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 one | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Hook's intention | turn property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | should | Curly | the boys | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | walk | gerund | the boys not said here | the plank | one by one obl | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plank=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | intend | Hook | nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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