Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 117

First signing them to hide, Peter cut Wendy’s bonds, and then nothing could have been easier than for them all to fly off together; but one thing barred the way, an oath, “Hook or me this time.”

Who acts: Peter, nothing, things, one thing, Wendy · What happens: sign, hide, cut, be, fly off, bar · To what, where: things, bonds, way

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 (Peter, nothing, things, one thing), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 signing	advmod
2	signing	sign	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 cut	advcl
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 signing	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hide	mark
5	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 signing	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 signing	punct
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cut	nsubj
8	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 bonds	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 Wendy	case
11	bonds	bond	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cut	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 easier	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 easier	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 easier	advmod
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 easier	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 easier	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 easier	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 easier	cop
19	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 cut	conj
20	than	than	SCONJ	_	25 fly	mark
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fly	nsubj
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 them	nmod:unmarked
24	to	to	PART	_	25 fly	mark
25	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 easier	advcl
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 fly	compound:prt
27	together	together	ADV	_	25 fly	advmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 barred	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 barred	cc
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 thing	nummod
31	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 barred	nsubj
32	barred	bar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cut	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 way	det
34	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 barred	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 oath	punct
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 oath	det
37	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 way	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Hook	punct
39	“	"	PUNCT	_	40 Hook	punct
40	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 barred	obl
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 me	cc
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 Hook	conj
43	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 time	det
44	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 barred	obl:unmarked
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cut	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sign	gerund	Peter not said here	things = thing		first property	vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V NP.recipient when S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hide	to-infinitive	Peter not said here				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cut	past	Peter	Wendy's bonds			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bond=Product
4	is	could · perfect	nothing		then	easy property	tree rules
5	fly off	to-infinitive	things = thing			together property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bar	past	one thing	the way and a oath	time	Hook obl	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer way=Theme
7	bond		Wendy				nom bond «phenomenon 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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