Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 182
Seeing Peter slowly advancing upon him through the air with dagger poised, he sprang upon the bulwarks to cast himself into the sea.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: see, advance, poise, spring, cast · To what, where: Peter, air, dagger, bulwarks, sea
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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 sprang | advcl |
| 2 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Seeing | obj |
| 3 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 1 Seeing | advmod |
| 4 | advancing | advance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Seeing | advcl |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 advancing | obl |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 air | det |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 advancing | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 dagger | case |
| 11 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 advancing | obl |
| 12 | poised | poise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 dagger | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sprang | nsubj |
| 15 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 bulwarks | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bulwarks | det |
| 18 | bulwarks | bulwark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sprang | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 cast | mark |
| 20 | cast | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sprang | advcl |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 cast | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sea | det |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cast | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Peter not said here | Peter | slowly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer peter=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | advance | gerund | Peter not said here | the air | upon Peter; with dagger | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through air=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | poise | participle | dagger not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | spring | past | Peter | the bulwarks | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon bulwark=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | cast | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | Peter | the sea | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent himself=Material into sea=Product |
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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