Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 146
Even the iron claw hung inactive; as if knowing that it was no intrinsic part of what the attacking force wanted.
Who acts: iron claw, claw, attacking force · What happens: hang, know, be, attack, want · To what, where: intrinsic part · 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 (iron claw, claw, attacking force), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 5 hung | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 claw | det |
| 3 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 claw | compound |
| 4 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hung | nsubj |
| 5 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | inactive | inactive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hung | xcomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 knowing | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 knowing | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 knowing | mark |
| 10 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hung | advcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 part | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 part | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 part | cop |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 part | det |
| 15 | intrinsic | intrinsic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 part | amod |
| 16 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knowing | ccomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 what | case |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 part | nmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 force | det |
| 20 | attacking | attack | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 force | amod |
| 21 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wanted | nsubj |
| 22 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | the iron claw | inactive property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | know | gerund | the iron claw not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | claw | no intrinsic part | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | attack | gerund | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | want | past | the attacking force | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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