Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 21
It was at this moment that Ed Teynte the quartermaster emerged from the forecastle and came along the deck.
Who acts: applause, Ed Teynte · What happens: be, emerge, come · To what, where: forecastle, deck
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 (applause, Ed Teynte), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 moment | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moment | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 emerged | mark |
| 7 | Ed | Ed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Teynte | compound |
| 8 | Teynte | Teynte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 emerged | nsubj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 quartermaster | det |
| 10 | quartermaster | quartermaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Teynte | appos |
| 11 | emerged | emerge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moment | advcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 forecastle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forecastle | det |
| 14 | forecastle | forecastle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 emerged | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 emerged | conj |
| 17 | along | along | ADP | _ | 19 deck | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 deck | det |
| 19 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | applause | at this moment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | emerge | past | Ed Teynte | the forecastle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from forecastle=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Ed Teynte not said here | the deck | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along deck=Initial_Location |
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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