Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 61

The unhappy Hook was as impotent as he was damp, and he fell forward like a cut flower.

Who acts: unhappy Hook, Hook · What happens: be, fall

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 (unhappy Hook, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Hook	det
2	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Hook	amod
3	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 impotent	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 impotent	cop
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 impotent	advmod
6	impotent	impotent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 damp	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 damp	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 damp	cop
10	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 impotent	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fell	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fell	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fell	nsubj
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 impotent	conj
15	forward	forward	ADV	_	14 fell	advmod
16	like	like	ADP	_	19 flower	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 flower	det
18	cut	cut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 flower	amod
19	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fell	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 impotent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the unhappy Hook	impotent property	tree rules
2	is	past	Hook	damp property	tree rules
3	fall	past	Hook	like a cut flower; forward property	vn occur-48.3 «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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