Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 159

Then he sought to close and give the quietus with his iron hook, which all this time had been pawing the air; but Peter doubled under it and, lunging fiercely, pierced him in the ribs.

Who acts: Peter, iron hook · What happens: seek, close, give, paw, double, lunge · To what, where: quietus, air, Peter, ribs

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, iron hook), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sought	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sought	nsubj
3	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 close	mark
5	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sought	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 give	cc
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 close	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 quietus	det
9	quietus	quietus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 hook	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hook	nmod:poss
12	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hook	compound
13	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 quietus	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pawing	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 pawing	nsubj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 time	det:predet
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 time	det
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pawing	obl:unmarked
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 pawing	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 pawing	aux
21	pawing	paw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 hook	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 air	det
23	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pawing	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 doubled	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 doubled	cc
26	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 doubled	nsubj
27	doubled	double	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sought	parataxis
28	under	under	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 doubled	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lunging	cc
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lunging	punct
32	lunging	lunge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 doubled	conj
33	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	32 lunging	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 pierced	punct
35	pierced	pierce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sought	conj
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 pierced	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 ribs	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 ribs	det
39	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 pierced	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	past	Peter			then		tree rules
2	close not said to happen	to-infinitive	Peter not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	give	infinitive	Peter not said here	the quietus			with Peter's iron hook	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quietus=Theme
4	paw	past · perfect · progressive	Peter's iron hook	the air		time		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient
5	double	past	Peter		air			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	lunge	gerund	Peter not said here				fiercely property	tree rules
7	pierce	past	Peter not said here	Peter	the ribs			vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Instrument

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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