Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 121

Hook tried to hearten them; but like the dogs he had made them they showed him their fangs, and he knew that if he took his eyes off them now they would leap at him.

Who acts: Hook, Peter · What happens: try, hearten, make, show, know, take · To what, where: Hook, fangs, Peter, eyes

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, 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	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hearten	mark
4	hearten	hearten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hearten	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 made	cc
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 dogs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dogs	det
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 made	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	aux
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 showed	parataxis
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	obj
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 showed	nsubj
16	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 showed	iobj
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 fangs	nmod:poss
19	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 showed	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 knew	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 knew	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 knew	nsubj
23	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	parataxis
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 took	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 took	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 took	nsubj
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 knew	ccomp
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 eyes	nmod:poss
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 took	obj
30	off	off	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 took	obl
32	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 leap	advmod
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 leap	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 leap	aux
35	leap	leap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 took	advcl
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 leap	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	Hook					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	hearten not said to happen	to-infinitive	Hook not said here	Hook				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
3	make	past · perfect	Peter	Hook			like the dogs	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product
4	show	past	Hook	Hook's fangs	Peter			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient fang=Topic
5	know	past	Peter					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	take a condition, not said to happen	past	Peter	Peter's eyes			off Hook	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme off they=Initial_Location
7	leap	would	Hook			now	at Peter	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory

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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