Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 50
Hook itched to do it, but it seemed too brutal.
Who acts: Hook, it · What happens: itch, do, seem · To what, where: desire
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, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg16:1868): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hook | Hook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 itched | nsubj |
| 2 | itched | itch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 itched | xcomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seemed | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 seemed | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seemed | nsubj |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 itched | conj |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 brutal | advmod |
| 11 | brutal | brutal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 seemed | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 itched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | itch | past | Hook | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | Hook not said here | desire | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | it | brutal property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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