Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 158

Hook, scarcely his inferior in brilliancy, but not quite so nimble in wrist play, forced him back by the weight of his onset, hoping suddenly to end all with a favourite thrust, taught him long ago by Barbecue at Rio; but to his astonishment he found this thrust turned aside again and again.

Who acts: Hook, Peter, thrust · What happens: force back, hope, end, teach, find, turn · To what, where: Peter, all, Rio, astonishment

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 (Hook, Peter, thrust), 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	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 forced	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 inferior	punct
3	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	5 inferior	advmod
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 inferior	nmod:poss
5	inferior	inferior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hook	appos
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 brilliancy	case
7	brilliancy	brilliancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 inferior	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nimble	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 nimble	cc
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 nimble	advmod
11	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 nimble	advmod
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 nimble	advmod
13	nimble	nimble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 inferior	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 play	case
15	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 play	compound
16	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nimble	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hook	punct
18	forced	force	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 forced	obj
20	back	back	ADV	_	18 forced	advmod
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 weight	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 weight	det
23	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 forced	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 onset	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 onset	nmod:poss
26	onset	onset	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 weight	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hoping	punct
28	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 forced	advcl
29	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	28 hoping	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 end	mark
31	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 hoping	xcomp
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 end	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 thrust	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 thrust	det
35	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 thrust	amod
36	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 end	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 taught	punct
38	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 forced	conj
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 taught	obj
40	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 ago	advmod
41	ago	ago	ADV	_	38 taught	advmod
42	by	by	ADP	_	43 Barbecue	case
43	Barbecue	Barbecue	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 taught	obl
44	at	at	ADP	_	45 Rio	case
45	Rio	Rio	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 taught	obl
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 turned	punct
47	but	but	CCONJ	_	55 turned	cc
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 astonishment	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 astonishment	nmod:poss
50	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 turned	obl
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 found	nsubj
52	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 astonishment	acl:relcl
53	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	54 thrust	det
54	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 turned	nsubj
55	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 forced	conj
56	aside	aside	ADV	_	55 turned	advmod
57	again	again	ADV	_	55 turned	advmod
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 again	cc
59	again	again	ADV	_	57 again	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 forced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	force back	past	Hook		Peter			by the weight of Peter's onset	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	hope	gerund	Hook not said here					suddenly property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	end not said to happen	to-infinitive	Hook not said here	all				with a favourite thrust	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector all=Eventuality with thrust=Subeventuality
4	teach speech: other	past	Hook not said here		Peter	Rio		by Barbecue; ago property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	find	past	Peter	Peter's astonishment not said here					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent astonishment=Topic
6	turn	past	this thrust			Peter's astonishment	again	aside property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to astonishment=Trajectory
7	astonish		Peter						nom astonishment «feeling 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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