Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 57
With a cry of rage he raised his iron hand over Smee’s head; but he did not tear.
Who acts: form, rage · What happens: raise, not tear, cry · To what, where: iron hand, head
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 (form, rage), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 cry | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cry | det |
| 3 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 raised | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 rage | case |
| 5 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cry | nmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 raised | nsubj |
| 7 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hand | amod |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 raised | obj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 12 | Smee | Smee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Smee | case |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 raised | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 tear | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 tear | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 tear | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 tear | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 tear | advmod |
| 20 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 raised | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | form | form's iron hand | Smee's head | with a cry of rage | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme over head=Destination | ||
| 2 | not tear | past · do-support | form | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cry | rage | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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