Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 37
It was as if Peter’s terrible oath had boarded the ship.
What happens: be · To what, where: presentiment
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 boarded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 boarded | cop |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 boarded | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 boarded | mark |
| 5 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 oath | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Peter | case |
| 7 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 oath | amod |
| 8 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 boarded | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 boarded | aux |
| 10 | boarded | board | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ship | det |
| 12 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 boarded | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 boarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect · passive | presentiment | board 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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