Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 21

Thus it was offensive to him even now to board a ship in the same dress in which he grappled her, and he still adhered in his walk to the school’s distinguished slouch.

Who acts: date, Hook · What happens: be, board, grapple, adhere, walk · To what, where: Hook, ship, same dress, gait, walk

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 (date, 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	4 offensive	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 offensive	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 offensive	cop
4	offensive	offensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 offensive	obl
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 now	advmod
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 offensive	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 board	mark
10	board	board	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 now	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ship	det
12	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 board	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 dress	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dress	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dress	amod
16	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 board	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 grappled	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 grappled	nsubj
20	grappled	grapple	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 dress	acl:relcl
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 grappled	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 adhered	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 adhered	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 adhered	nsubj
25	still	still	ADV	_	26 adhered	advmod
26	adhered	adhere	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 offensive	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 walk	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 walk	nmod:poss
29	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 adhered	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	35 slouch	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 school	det
32	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 slouch	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 school	case
34	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 slouch	amod
35	slouch	slouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 adhered	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 offensive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	date		Hook		now	offensive, thus property	tree rules
2	board	to-infinitive	date not said here	a ship		the same dress			vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ship=Theme in dress=Location
3	grapple	past	Hook	gait		the same dress			vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	adhere	past	Hook			Hook's walk	still	to the school's distinguished slouch	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to slouch=Co-Theme
5	walk		Hook						nom walk «act 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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