Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 17
No sooner did Peter remember it than he heard the ticking.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: remember, hear · To what, where: crocodile, ticking · 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), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 remember | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 remember | aux |
| 4 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 remember | nsubj |
| 5 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 remember | obj |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 heard | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 remember | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ticking | det |
| 11 | ticking | ticking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past · do-support | Peter | crocodile | soon property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 2 | hear | past | Peter | the ticking | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer ticking=Stimulus |
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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