Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 153
“Ay, James Hook,” came the stern answer, “it is all my doing.”
Who acts: James Hook, answer · What happens: come, do · To what, where: stern answer
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 (James Hook, answer), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 2 | Ay | ay | INTJ | _ | 8 came | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ay | punct |
| 4 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Hook | compound |
| 5 | Hook | Hook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hook | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hook | punct |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 answer | det |
| 10 | stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 answer | amod |
| 11 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 doing | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 doing | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 doing | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 doing | aux |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 doing | det:predet |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 doing | nsubj |
| 18 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 came | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | James Hook | the stern answer | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location answer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present · progressive | answer | vn act-114-1 «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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