Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 59
“To claw a man because he is good form, what would that be?”
Who acts: form, that · What happens: be · To what, where: good form, claw man
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, that), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 claw | mark |
| 3 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | compound |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 form | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 form | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 form | cop |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 form | amod |
| 10 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 be | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 be | obj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 be | aux |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 be | nsubj |
| 15 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 man | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | form | good form | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | would | that | a claw man | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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