Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 118
So when he had freed Wendy, he whispered for her to conceal herself with the others, and himself took her place by the mast, her cloak around him so that he should pass for her.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: free, whisper, conceal, take, pass · To what, where: Peter, Wendy, place · 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 (Peter), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 freed | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 freed | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 freed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 freed | aux |
| 5 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 freed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 whispered | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 whispered | nsubj |
| 9 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 freed | parataxis |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 whispered | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 conceal | mark |
| 13 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 whispered | ccomp |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 conceal | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 others | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 others | det |
| 17 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 conceal | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 took | cc |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 took | nsubj |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 whispered | conj |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 place | nmod:poss |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 mast | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mast | det |
| 26 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 cloak | punct |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 29 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 mast | appos |
| 30 | around | around | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 cloak | nmod |
| 32 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 36 pass | mark |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 so | fixed |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 pass | nsubj |
| 35 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 pass | aux |
| 36 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 took | advcl |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 her | case |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 pass | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 freed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | free | past · perfect · passive | Peter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | Peter | for Wendy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | conceal | to-infinitive | Wendy | with the others | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take | past | Peter | Wendy's place | by the mast | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 5 | pass | should | Peter | for Wendy | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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