Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 173
“In two minutes,” he cried, “the ship will be blown to pieces.”
Who acts: Peter · What happens: cry, blow · To what, where: ship, pieces · 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 minutes | case |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 minutes | nummod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cried | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 minutes | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 minutes | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 blown | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 blown | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ship | det |
| 12 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blown | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 blown | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 blown | aux:pass |
| 15 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 cried | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 pieces | case |
| 17 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 blown | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Peter | minute | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | blow in a quote | future · passive | the ship | pieces | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient to piece=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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