Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 136
In that frightful moment I think his fierce heart broke.
Who acts: I, fierce heart · What happens: think, break · 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 (I, fierce heart), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 moment | det |
| 3 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moment | amod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 think | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 think | nsubj |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 heart | amod |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 broke | nsubj |
| 10 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 think | ccomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | moment | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | break | past | Peter's fierce heart | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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