Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 24

John clapped his hands on the ill-fated pirate’s mouth to stifle the dying groan.

Who acts: John · What happens: clap, stifle, die · To what, where: hands, mouth, dying groan

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 (John), 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	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 clapped	nsubj
2	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 clapped	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	12 mouth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pirate	det
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fated	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 ill	punct
9	fated	fated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pirate	amod
10	pirate	pirate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mouth	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 pirate	case
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clapped	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 stifle	mark
14	stifle	stifle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 clapped	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 groan	det
16	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 groan	amod
17	groan	groan	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stifle	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 clapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	clap	past	John	John's hands	the fated pirate's mouth	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
2	stifle	to-infinitive	John not said here	the dying groan		vn suffocate-40.7 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent groan=Patient
3	die	gerund				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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