Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 162
Hook did so instantly, but with a tragic feeling that Peter was showing good form.
Who acts: Hook, Peter · What happens: do, show · To what, where: good form
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), 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 | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 instantly | advmod |
| 4 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 feeling | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 feeling | cc |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 feeling | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 feeling | det |
| 9 | tragic | tragic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 feeling | amod |
| 10 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 showing | mark |
| 12 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 showing | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 showing | aux |
| 14 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 feeling | advcl |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 form | amod |
| 16 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 showing | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Hook | instantly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | show | past · progressive | Peter | good form | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent form=Recipient |
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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