Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 86
“I once thought of calling myself Red-handed Jack,” he said diffidently.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: think, call, hand, say · To what, where: Jack · 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 (Jack), 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 thought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 thought | advmod |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 calling | mark |
| 6 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 thought | advcl |
| 7 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 calling | obj |
| 8 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 handed | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Red | punct |
| 10 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 calling | xcomp |
| 11 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 handed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | diffidently | diffidently | ADV | _ | 15 said | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | past | Jack | once property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | call in a quote | gerund | Jack not said here | Jack | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hand in a quote | participle | Jack not said here | Jack | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | diffidently property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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