Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 104

Hook had well-nigh forgotten his prisoners, but as he swung round on them now his face lit up again.

Who acts: Hook, Mullins, face · What happens: forget, swing, lit up · To what, where: prisoners

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 (Hook, Mullins, face), 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	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forgotten	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 forgotten	aux
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 nigh	advmod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	6 forgotten	advmod
6	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 prisoners	nmod:poss
8	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 forgotten	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 swung	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 swung	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 swung	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 swung	nsubj
13	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 forgotten	conj
14	round	round	ADV	_	13 swung	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 swung	obl
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 lit	advmod
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 face	nmod:poss
19	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lit	nsubj
20	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 swung	advcl
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 lit	compound:prt
22	again	again	ADV	_	20 lit	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 forgotten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past · perfect	Hook	Mullins's prisoners		nigh property	tree rules
2	swing	past	Mullins			on Hook; round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on they=Trajectory
3	lit up	participle	Mullins's face		now; again		tree rules

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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