Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 82
“Stow this gab,” roared Hook, and the spokesmen were dragged back.
What happens: stow, roar, drag back · To what, where: gab, Hook, spokesmen · 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: 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 Stow | punct |
| 2 | Stow | stow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 roared | ccomp |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 gab | det |
| 4 | gab | gab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Stow | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stow | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stow | punct |
| 7 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 roared | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dragged | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dragged | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spokesmen | det |
| 12 | spokesmen | spokesman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dragged | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dragged | aux:pass |
| 14 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 roared | conj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 dragged | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stow in a quote | infinitive | this gab | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gab=Theme | |||||
| 2 | roar | past | Hook | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | drag back | past · passive | the spokesmen | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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