Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 188
“Bad form,” he cried jeeringly, and went content to the crocodile.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: cry, go · To what, where: content
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 | _ | 3 form | punct |
| 2 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 form | amod |
| 3 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 form | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 form | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | jeeringly | jeeringly | ADV | _ | 7 cried | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | conj |
| 12 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 crocodile | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 crocodile | det |
| 15 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Peter | jeeringly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Peter not said here | content | to the crocodile | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location content=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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