Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 190

“Seventeen,” Slightly sang out; but he was not quite correct in his figures.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: sing out, not be, figure · To what, where: Seventeen, figures

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	_	2 Seventeen	punct
2	Seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sang	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Seventeen	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Seventeen	punct
5	Slightly	slightly	ADV	_	6 sang	advmod
6	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 sang	compound:prt
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 correct	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 correct	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 correct	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 correct	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 correct	advmod
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 correct	advmod
14	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sang	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 figures	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 figures	nmod:poss
17	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 correct	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing out speech: express	past		Seventeen		slightly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is	past	Peter		Peter's figures	correct property	tree rules
3	figure		Peter				nom figure «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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