Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 63
“Quiet, you scugs,” he cried, “or I’ll cast anchor in you;” and at once the din was hushed.
Who acts: you, Hook · What happens: scug, cry, cast, hush · To what, where: anchor, din · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Quiet | punct |
| 2 | Quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 scugs | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 scugs | nsubj |
| 5 | scugs | scug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Quiet | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 scugs | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 scugs | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scugs | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cast | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 cast | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 cast | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 cast | nsubj |
| 14 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 cast | aux |
| 15 | cast | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | conj |
| 16 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cast | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 cast | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 Quiet | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Quiet | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 hushed | cc |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 once | case |
| 23 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 27 hushed | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 din | det |
| 25 | din | din | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hushed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 hushed | aux:pass |
| 27 | hushed | hush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Quiet | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Quiet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scug in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Hook | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cast in a quote | future | Hook | anchor | in you | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent anchor=Theme in you=Destination | |||
| 4 | hush | past · passive | the din | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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