Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 130

“Fling the girl overboard,” cried Hook; and they made a rush at the figure in the cloak.

Who acts: Fling, Hook · What happens: cry, make · To what, where: Hook, rush, figure

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 (Fling, Hook), 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 Fling	punct
2	Fling	fling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Fling	acl
5	overboard	overboard	ADV	_	4 girl	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Fling	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Fling	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 made	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 rush	det
15	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 figure	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 figure	det
18	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 cloak	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cloak	det
21	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Fling	Hook					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Topic
2	make	past	Hook	a rush		the figure		in the cloak	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rush=Product

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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