Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 126
Never was luck on a pirate ship wi’ a woman on board.
What happens: not be · To what, where: luck, pirate ship 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: 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 luck | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 luck | cop |
| 3 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 wi | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wi | det |
| 6 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wi | compound |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wi | compound |
| 8 | wi | wi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 luck | nmod |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 wi | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wi | appos |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 board | case |
| 13 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 woman | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 luck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | luck | a pirate ship 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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