Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 135

Then they all knew who ’twas that had been undoing them in the cabin, and twice Hook essayed to speak and twice he failed.

Who acts: things, Hook, Peter · What happens: know, be, undo, essay, speak, fail · To what, where: things, cabin · 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 (things, Hook, Peter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg16:2055): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 knew	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 they	det
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	4 knew	ccomp
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 twas	punct
7	twas	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 who	cop
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 undoing	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 undoing	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 undoing	aux
11	undoing	undo	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 who	acl:relcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 undoing	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 cabin	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cabin	det
15	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 undoing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 essayed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 essayed	cc
18	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 essayed	advmod
19	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 essayed	nsubj
20	essayed	essay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 speak	mark
22	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 essayed	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 failed	cc
24	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 failed	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 failed	nsubj
26	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 essayed	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	things = thing			then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past						tree rules
3	undo	past · perfect · progressive		things = thing	the cabin			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	essay	past	Hook				twice property	tree rules
5	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	Hook not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	fail	past	Peter				twice property	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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