Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 27
Peter gave the signal, and the carrion was cast overboard.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: give, cast · To what, where: signal, carrion
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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 signal | det |
| 4 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cast | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cast | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 carrion | det |
| 8 | carrion | carrion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cast | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cast | aux:pass |
| 10 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 gave | conj |
| 11 | overboard | overboard | ADV | _ | 10 cast | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Peter | the signal | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cast | past · passive | the carrion | overboard property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
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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