Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 52
He pursued the problem like the sleuth-hound that he was.
Who acts: Hook · What happens: pursue, be · To what, where: problem
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pursued | nsubj |
| 2 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 problem | det |
| 4 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pursued | obj |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 hound | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hound | det |
| 7 | sleuth | sleuth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hound | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 sleuth | punct |
| 9 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pursued | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 was | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 was | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pursued | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pursued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | past | Hook | the problem | like the sleuth hound | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Theme | |||
| 2 | be | past | Hook | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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