Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 146
Again and again they closed upon him, and again and again he hewed a clear space.
Who acts: boys, group · What happens: close, hew · To what, where: clear space
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 (boys, group), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 5 closed | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 again | cc |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Again | conj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 closed | nsubj |
| 5 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 closed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 again | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 again | cc |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 hewed | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 again | cc |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 again | conj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hewed | nsubj |
| 14 | hewed | hew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 closed | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 space | det |
| 16 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 space | amod |
| 17 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hewed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | past | boys = boy | again | upon group | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | hew | past | group | a clear space | again | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=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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