Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 69
He lolled at his ease, humming, not unmelodiously, snatches of a rude song, and fingering a pack of cards.
Who acts: Hook · What happens: loll, hum, finger, snatch · To what, where: ease, snatches, pack, rude song
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 lolled | nsubj |
| 2 | lolled | loll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 ease | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ease | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lolled | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 humming | punct |
| 7 | humming | hum | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 lolled | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 unmelodiously | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 unmelodiously | advmod |
| 10 | unmelodiously | unmelodiously | ADV | _ | 7 humming | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 snatches | punct |
| 12 | snatches | snatch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 humming | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 song | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 song | det |
| 15 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 song | amod |
| 16 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 snatches | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fingering | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fingering | cc |
| 19 | fingering | finger | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 lolled | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 pack | det |
| 21 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fingering | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 cards | case |
| 23 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 pack | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loll | past | Hook | Hook's ease | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at ease=Location | ||||
| 2 | hum | gerund | Hook not said here | snatches of a rude song | unmelodiously property | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location | |||
| 3 | finger | gerund | Hook not said here | a pack of cards | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | snatch | a rude song | nom snatch «communication transitive»: of=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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