Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 176

What sort of form was Hook himself showing?

Who acts: sort, Hook · What happens: be, show, sort · To what, where: Hook, 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 (sort, Hook), 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 sort	det
2	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Hook	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 form	case
4	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sort	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Hook	cop
6	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 showing	nsubj
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 Hook	nmod
8	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 showing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	what sort of form	Hook	Peter nmod	tree rules
2	show	gerund	Hook			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sort			form		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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