Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 157
Peter was a superb swordsman, and parried with dazzling rapidity; ever and anon he followed up a feint with a lunge that got past his foe’s defence, but his shorter reach stood him in ill stead, and he could not drive the steel home.
Who acts: Peter, lunge, shorter reach, foe · What happens: be, parry, follow up, get, stand, not drive · To what, where: superb swordsman, feint, defence, Peter, ill stead, steel
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 (Peter, lunge, shorter reach, foe), 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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 swordsman | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 swordsman | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 swordsman | det |
| 4 | superb | superb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 swordsman | amod |
| 5 | swordsman | swordsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 parried | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 parried | cc |
| 8 | parried | parry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 swordsman | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 rapidity | case |
| 10 | dazzling | dazzling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rapidity | compound |
| 11 | rapidity | rapidity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 parried | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 anon | punct |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 anon | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 anon | cc |
| 15 | anon | anon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swordsman | conj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 followed | nsubj |
| 17 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 anon | acl:relcl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 followed | compound:prt |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 feint | det |
| 20 | feint | feint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 followed | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 lunge | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lunge | det |
| 23 | lunge | lunge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feint | nmod |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 got | nsubj |
| 25 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 lunge | acl:relcl |
| 26 | past | past | ADP | _ | 30 defence | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 foe | nmod:poss |
| 28 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 defence | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 foe | case |
| 30 | defence | defence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 got | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 stood | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 stood | cc |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 reach | nmod:poss |
| 34 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 reach | amod |
| 35 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 stood | nsubj |
| 36 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 swordsman | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 stood | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 stead | case |
| 39 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 stead | amod |
| 40 | stead | stead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 stood | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 drive | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 drive | cc |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 drive | nsubj |
| 44 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 drive | aux |
| 45 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 drive | advmod |
| 46 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 stood | advcl |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 steel | det |
| 48 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 drive | obj |
| 49 | home | home | ADV | _ | 46 drive | advmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swordsman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Peter | a superb swordsman and anon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | parry | participle | Peter not said here | with dazzling rapidity | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow up | past | Peter | a feint | with a lunge | tree rules | |||
| 4 | get | past | a lunge | Peter's foe's defence | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme past defence=Destination | ||||
| 5 | stand | past | Peter's shorter reach | Peter | ill stead | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in stead=Destination | |||
| 6 | not drive | could | Peter | the steel | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent steel=Location | |||
| 7 | defend | Peter's foe | nom defence «process transitive»: poss=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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