Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 83
“You, boy,” he said, addressing John, “you look as if you had a little pluck in you.
Who acts: You, Hook · What happens: boy, say, address, look, have · To what, where: John, little pluck · 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 | _ | 4 boy | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 boy | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 boy | punct |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 boy | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 boy | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 addressing | punct |
| 10 | addressing | address | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 11 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 addressing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 look | nsubj |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 addressing | conj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 had | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 had | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 look | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pluck | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pluck | amod |
| 22 | pluck | pluck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 pluck | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boy in a quote | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Hook | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | address | gerund | Hook not said here | John | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent john=Destination | ||||
| 4 | look in a quote | present | you | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | past | you | a little pluck | in you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pluck=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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