Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 12
As he swam he had but one thought: “Hook or me this time.”
Who acts: human · What happens: swim, have
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 (human), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 swam | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 swam | nsubj |
| 3 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swam | ccomp |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 thought | cc |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 thought | nummod |
| 8 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swam | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Hook | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Hook | punct |
| 11 | Hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | appos |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 me | cc |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 Hook | conj |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Hook | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Hook | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past | human | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | human | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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