Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 141
Man to man they were the stronger; but they fought on the defensive only, which enabled the boys to hunt in pairs and choose their quarry.
Who acts: Man, pirates · What happens: be, fight, enable, hunt, choose · To what, where: defensive, boys, pairs, quarry
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 (Man, pirates), 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 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stronger | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 man | case |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Man | nmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stronger | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stronger | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stronger | det |
| 7 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 fought | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 fought | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fought | nsubj |
| 11 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stronger | parataxis |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 defensive | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 defensive | det |
| 14 | defensive | defensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fought | obl |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 enabled | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 enabled | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 enabled | nsubj |
| 18 | enabled | enable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fought | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 boys | det |
| 20 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 enabled | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 hunt | mark |
| 22 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 enabled | advcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 pairs | case |
| 24 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 hunt | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 choose | cc |
| 26 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 hunt | conj |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 quarry | nmod:poss |
| 28 | quarry | quarry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 choose | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stronger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Man to man | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fight | past | pirates = pirate | the defensive | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | enable | past | the boys | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hunt | to-infinitive | pairs | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in pair=Location | |||||
| 5 | choose | present | pirates's quarry | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarry=Theme |
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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