Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 137

At last he cried, “Cleave him to the brisket!” but without conviction.

Who acts: heart · What happens: cry, cleave · To what, where: last, heart · 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 (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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cried	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Cleave	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 Cleave	punct
7	Cleave	cleave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cried	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 Cleave	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 brisket	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 brisket	det
11	brisket	brisket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Cleave	obl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 Cleave	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 Cleave	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 conviction	cc
15	without	without	ADP	_	16 conviction	case
16	conviction	conviction	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cried	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	heart			last			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cleave in a quote	infinitive		heart				to the brisket result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to brisket=Result

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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