Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 19
Then he realised that he was doing it himself, and in a flash he understood the situation.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: realise, do, understand · To what, where: crocodile, situation, flash
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 realised | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 realised | nsubj |
| 3 | realised | realise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 doing | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 doing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 doing | aux |
| 7 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 realised | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 doing | obj |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 doing | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 understood | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 understood | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 flash | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 flash | det |
| 14 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 understood | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 understood | nsubj |
| 16 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 realised | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 situation | det |
| 18 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 understood | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 realised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | realise | past | Peter | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past · progressive | Peter | crocodile | Peter obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | understand | past | Peter | the situation | a flash | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer situation=Stimulus |
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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