Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 18
At first he thought the sound did come from the crocodile, and he looked behind him swiftly.
Who acts: Peter, sound · What happens: think, come, look · 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, sound), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 thought | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sound | det |
| 6 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 crocodile | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 crocodile | det |
| 11 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looked | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looked | obl |
| 18 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 15 looked | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Peter | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past · do-support | the sound | from the crocodile | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from crocodile=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | look | past | Peter | behind sound; swiftly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind he=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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