Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 109
For the last time his dogs admired Hook, and devotedly they did his bidding.
Who acts: dogs, Cookson · What happens: admire, do, bid · To what, where: Hook, bidding
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 (dogs, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 admired | obl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 admired | nsubj |
| 7 | admired | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 admired | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 did | cc |
| 11 | devotedly | devotedly | ADV | _ | 13 did | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 did | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 admired | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 15 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 did | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 admired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admire | past | Cookson's dogs | Hook | time | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hook=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | do | past | dogs = dog | Cookson's bidding | devotedly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | bid | Cookson | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=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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