Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 105
“Lads,” he cried to his crew, “now here’s a notion.
Who acts: Lads · What happens: cry · To what, where: crew
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 (Lads), 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 | _ | 2 Lads | punct |
| 2 | Lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lads | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lads | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 crew | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 crew | nmod:poss |
| 9 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ’s | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 ’s | punct |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 here | advmod |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 ’s | advmod |
| 14 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 notion | det |
| 16 | notion | notion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ’s | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Lads | face's crew | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to crew=Recipient |
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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