Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 42
Strange that he should think of this, which had never troubled him before; perhaps the sewing machine brought it to his mind.
Who acts: Hook, sewing machine · What happens: think, not trouble, bring, mind · To what, where: Hook, ambition, mind
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, sewing machine), 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 | Strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 think | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Strange | parataxis |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 think | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 troubled | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 troubled | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 troubled | aux |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 troubled | advmod |
| 12 | troubled | trouble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 think | parataxis |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 troubled | obj |
| 14 | before | before | ADV | _ | 12 troubled | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 brought | punct |
| 16 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 20 brought | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 machine | det |
| 18 | sewing | sewing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 machine | compound |
| 19 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | nsubj |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 troubled | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 brought | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 mind | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mind | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Strange | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | should | Hook | of this | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not trouble | past · perfect · passive | Hook | before property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | the sewing machine | ambition | Hook's mind | perhaps property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to mind=Destination | ||
| 4 | mind | Hook | nom mind «cognition 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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