Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 38
Hook felt a gloomy desire to make his dying speech, lest presently there should be no time for it.
Who acts: Hook · What happens: feel, make, die, be, speak · To what, where: gloomy desire, dying speech, time · 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 (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 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 desire | det |
| 4 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 desire | amod |
| 5 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 felt | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 speech | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 speech | amod |
| 10 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 time | punct |
| 12 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 16 be | mark |
| 13 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 16 be | advmod |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 be | expl |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 be | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 time | cop |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 time | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Hook | a gloomy desire | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | Hook not said here | Hook's dying speech | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speech=Product | ||||
| 3 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 4 | is a | infinitive | no time | for speech | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | speak | Hook | nom speech «communication 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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