Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 39

“Better for Hook,” he cried, “if he had had less ambition!”

Who acts: Hook · What happens: cry, have · To what, where: less ambition · 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Better	punct
2	Better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 cried	advmod
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 Hook	case
4	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Better	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Better	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Better	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 had	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 had	aux
14	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 cried	parataxis
15	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 ambition	amod
16	ambition	ambition	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Hook						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	Hook	less ambition					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ambition=Patient

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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