Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 111
“Now, listen!” cried Hook, and all listened.
Who acts: Hook · What happens: listen, cry · To what, where: all · 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 (Hook), 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 | _ | 4 listen | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 listen | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | ccomp |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 listen | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 listen | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 listened | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 listened | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 listened | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 cried | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in a quote | infinitive | now | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Hook | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | listen | participle · passive | all | 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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