Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 108
If they kill him, we’re so much the better; if he kills them, we’re none the worse.”
Who acts: Lads, we, Cookson · What happens: kill, be · To what, where: Cookson, Lads, none
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, we, Cookson), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 kill | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ’re | advcl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kill | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 kill | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 ’re | nsubj |
| 7 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 better | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 better | det |
| 11 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 ’re | advcl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 kills | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 kills | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kills | nsubj |
| 15 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ’re | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kills | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ’re | punct |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 ’re | nsubj |
| 19 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ’re | conj |
| 20 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 19 ’re | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 worse | det |
| 22 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 ’re | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ’re | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 ’re | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill a condition, not said to happen | present | Lads = lad | Cookson | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | present | we | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | kill a condition, not said to happen | present | Cookson | Lads = lad | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | be | present | we | none | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot none=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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