Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 163
Hitherto he had thought it was some fiend fighting him, but darker suspicions assailed him now.
Who acts: Peter, form, fiend, darker suspicions · What happens: think, be, fight, assail · To what, where: fiend, Peter · Speech: someone speaks here
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, form, fiend, darker suspicions), 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 | Hitherto | hitherto | ADV | _ | 4 thought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | aux |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fiend | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fiend | cop |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 fiend | det |
| 8 | fiend | fiend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 fiend | acl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fighting | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 assailed | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 assailed | cc |
| 13 | darker | dark | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 suspicions | amod |
| 14 | suspicions | suspicion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 assailed | nsubj |
| 15 | assailed | assail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 assailed | obj |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 assailed | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · perfect | Peter | hitherto property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | form | some fiend | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fight | gerund | some fiend not said here | Peter | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | assail | past | darker suspicions | Peter | now | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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