Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 124

“Ay,” they snarled, “a man wi’ a hook.”

Who acts: Lads · What happens: snarl · To what, where: man wi

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	_	6 snarled	punct
2	Ay	ay	INTJ	_	6 snarled	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ay	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ay	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 snarled	nsubj
6	snarled	snarl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wi	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 wi	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wi	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wi	compound
11	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snarled	obj
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 wi	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hook	det
14	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snarled	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 snarled	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 snarled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snarl	past	Lads = lad	a man wi					tree rules

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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