Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 98

Through Hook’s teeth came the answer: “You would have to swear, ‘Down with the King.’”

Who acts: teeth, You · What happens: come, have, swear · To what, where: answer

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 (teeth, You), 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	Through	through	ADP	_	4 teeth	case
2	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 teeth	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Hook	case
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 answer	det
7	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
10	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 have	aux
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 swear	mark
14	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 have	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Down	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 Down	punct
17	Down	down	ADV	_	12 have	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 King	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 King	det
20	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Down	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	Hook's teeth	the answer		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location answer=Theme
2	have in a quote	would	You		down property	tree rules
3	swear in a quote	to-infinitive	You not said here			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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