Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 122

“Lads,” he said, ready to cajole or strike as need be, but never quailing for an instant, “I’ve thought it out.

Who acts: Lads · What happens: say, cajole, strike, not quail, have, think out · To what, where: need · 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 (Lads), 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	_	2 Lads	punct
2	Lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Lads	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Lads	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ready	punct
8	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 cajole	mark
10	cajole	cajole	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ready	xcomp
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 strike	cc
12	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cajole	conj
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 be	mark
14	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 be	nsubj
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 strike	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 quailing	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 quailing	cc
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 quailing	advmod
19	quailing	quail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 thought	advmod
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 instant	case
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 instant	det
22	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 quailing	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ’ve	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 ’ve	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 ’ve	nsubj
26	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 quailing	parataxis
27	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	advcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 thought	obj
29	out	out	ADP	_	27 thought	compound:prt
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Lads			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	cajole	to-infinitive	Lads not said here			vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	strike	infinitive	Lads not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not quail	gerund			for a instant	tree rules
5	have in a quote	present	Lads = lad			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	think out speech: other in a quote	past	Lads not said here	need		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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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