Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 101

“They say,” said another, looking viciously at Hook, “that when he comes it’s in the likeness of the wickedest man aboard.”

Who acts: tails, that · What happens: say, look, come · To what, where: another · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tails, that), 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	_	3 say	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 looking	punct
9	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
10	viciously	viciously	ADV	_	9 looking	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 Hook	case
12	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 looking	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 comes	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 comes	punct
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 comes	nsubj
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 comes	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 comes	nsubj
18	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 looking	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ’s	nsubj
20	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 comes	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 likeness	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 likeness	det
23	likeness	likeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ’s	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 man	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 man	det
26	wickedest	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 likeness	nmod
28	aboard	aboard	ADV	_	27 man	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	tails = tail			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past		another		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent another=Topic
3	look	gerund			at Hook; viciously property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hook=Theme
4	come in a quote	present	that			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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