Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 172
Abandoning the fight he rushed into the powder magazine and fired it.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: abandon, rush, fire · To what, where: fight, powder magazine
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.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg16:2085): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Abandoning | abandon | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 rushed | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fight | det |
| 3 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Abandoning | obj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rushed | nsubj |
| 5 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 magazine | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 magazine | det |
| 8 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 magazine | compound |
| 9 | magazine | magazine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rushed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fired | cc |
| 11 | fired | fire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rushed | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fired | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abandon | gerund | Peter not said here | the fight | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme fight=Source | ||||
| 2 | rush | past | Peter | into the powder magazine result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into magazine=Result | ||||
| 3 | fire | past | Peter not said here | fight | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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