Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 47

He had said horrid things to them and hit them with the palm of his hand, because he could not hit with his fist, but they had only clung to him the more.

Who acts: Smee, things · What happens: say, hit, not hit, cling · To what, where: horrid things, things, Smee · 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 (Smee, things), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	aux
3	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hit	cc
9	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hit	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 palm	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 palm	det
13	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hit	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 hand	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hand	nmod:poss
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 palm	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hit	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 hit	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hit	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 hit	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 hit	advmod
22	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hit	parataxis
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 fist	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 fist	nmod:poss
25	fist	fist	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hit	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 clung	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 clung	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 clung	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 clung	aux
30	only	only	ADV	_	31 clung	advmod
31	clung	cling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 hit	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 clung	obl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 more	det
35	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 clung	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · perfect	Smee	horrid things	things = thing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Topic to they=Recipient
2	hit	past	Smee not said here	things = thing		with the palm of Smee's hand	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with palm=Instrument
3	not hit	could	Smee			with Smee's fist	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with fist=Instrument
4	cling	past · perfect	things = thing		Smee		vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to he=Co-Theme

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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