Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 161
“Now!” cried all the boys, but with a magnificent gesture Peter invited his opponent to pick up his sword.
Who acts: boys, magnificent gesture · What happens: cry, invite, pick up · To what, where: opponent, sword
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, magnificent gesture), 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 | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 cried | advmod |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 boys | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boys | det |
| 8 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 invited | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 invited | cc |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 gesture | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 gesture | det |
| 13 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gesture | amod |
| 14 | gesture | gesture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 invited | nsubj |
| 15 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 gesture | appos |
| 16 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cried | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 opponent | nmod:poss |
| 18 | opponent | opponent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 invited | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 pick | mark |
| 20 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 invited | advcl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 pick | compound:prt |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sword | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pick | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | all boys | now | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | invite | past | a magnificent gesture | Peter's opponent | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opponent=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | pick up | to-infinitive | a magnificent gesture not said here | Peter's sword | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Topic |
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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