Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 85

Now John had sometimes experienced this hankering at maths. prep.; and he was struck by Hook’s picking him out.

Who acts: John · What happens: experience, strike, pick out · To what, where: hankering, maths, John

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 (John), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 experienced	advmod
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 experienced	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 experienced	aux
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 experienced	advmod
5	experienced	experience	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 hankering	det
7	hankering	hankering	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 experienced	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 maths	case
9	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hankering	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 experienced	punct
11	prep	prep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 experienced	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 experienced	punct
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 struck	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 struck	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 struck	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 struck	aux:pass
17	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 experienced	conj
18	by	by	SCONJ	_	21 picking	mark
19	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 picking	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 Hook	case
21	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 struck	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 picking	obj
23	out	out	ADP	_	21 picking	compound:prt
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 experienced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	experience	past · perfect	John	this hankering	maths	now	sometimes property	tree rules
2	strike	past · passive		John				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Instrument
3	pick out	gerund		John				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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